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Re: Figma Slides

#101

Post by bmitc »

patchorang wrote: post #21

Designers are pretty good at siloing themselves. I worry this may further silo them as the rest of the business will continue to use PPT. Designers frequently express frustration about "not having a seat at the table." It's going to be tough to influence the business when using a different tool than everyone else. Edit: PPT or Google Slides* My point was more about using the tool that the rest of the business is usin…

Why does it matter? How does designers using a tool affect anybody? Are you familiar with Figma? It's ubiquitous and awesome.

And, as if developers use a non-plethora of non-esoteric, non-outdated tooling.

Re: Figma Slides

#102

Post by sirjaz »

This is just another webapp, please God please can we go back to making true desktop/native apps again. We have these powerful machines that are under utilized for what they are.

Re: Figma Slides

#103

Post by sho »

IshKebab wrote: post #60
danielbln wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google Drawings was the bees knees 15 years ago, and since it is a dead product and hasn't changed one bit today it isn't. We use excalidraw a lot, but my excitement has waned a bit there as well.

Yeah I used Excalidraw for a while, but once the novelty of the sketchy look wears off it's really a very basic drawing program. Not suitable for proper technical diagrams (which to be fair it isn't intended to be). In a way it felt to me like Excalidraw works around your diagrams not looking very good by just making them obviously not intended to look good. But Draw.io solves that problem by just making them actuall…

> They don't work anywhere else you'd want to use an SVG (e.g. embedded in a PDF)

My workflow is exporting to PDF and then just embedding that inside the larger PDF. Works fine?

Re: Figma Slides

#104

Post by blackoil »

bmitc wrote: post #101
patchorang wrote: post #21

Designers are pretty good at siloing themselves. I worry this may further silo them as the rest of the business will continue to use PPT. Designers frequently express frustration about "not having a seat at the table." It's going to be tough to influence the business when using a different tool than everyone else. Edit: PPT or Google Slides* My point was more about using the tool that the rest of the business is usin…

Why does it matter? How does designers using a tool affect anybody? Are you familiar with Figma? It's ubiquitous and awesome. And, as if developers use a non-plethora of non-esoteric, non-outdated tooling.

Lack of collaboration with folks in other expertise areas who won't/can't use that tool.

Re: Figma Slides

#106

Post by ux-app »

aikinai wrote: post #96
mdorazio wrote: post #37

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Counterpoint: I have never encountered a “designer deck” that I couldn’t recreate in PowerPoint. Most people just really suck at PowerPoint / Slides and, to be fair, the functionality to make things look good is often unintuitive. Just as a random example, most people don’t know that shapes in PowerPoint are full vector objects with editable Bézier curves and Boolean tools available.

PowerPoint I believe you (or at least don’t know enough myself to argue). But for Slides, there’s no way. How, for example, would you put an outline around text?

Yep, it's the outline around text that won you the client.

Re: Figma Slides

#107

Post by bowsamic »

al_borland wrote: post #81
timr wrote: post #45

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All of the things you mentioned (save maybe layer lists) are why I fell in love with Keynote, and wish I could use it for all presentations. Sadly, 99% of my time is spent in Google slides, which is like banging rocks together. Keynote's ability to do things like introspect into postscript/vector objects and align on lines within the object is one of those things that makes you re-evaluate how software should work. I…

I sometimes wonder if Keynote will suffer now that Jobs is gone and the Apple keynotes have gone to using videos ever since the pandemic. I don’t think Cook ever liked doing the live demos, so the videos are likely here to stay. The presentations Jobs did were a big driver of Keynote’s development. If you haven’t seen it, there is an interview with the guy who put those presentations together for 20 years. It’s prett…

I don’t think that will affect it. Apple’s public use of Keynote has always been very basic

Re: Figma Slides

#108

Post by devmunchies »

timr wrote: post #45
yoz wrote: post #36

At my previous job we used Google Slides, and I rapidly came to hate it. Here's why Figma Slides has me excited: - I use animation a lot, for many reasons, such as keeping audience focus on parts of the slide and visually explaining information changes and multi-step processes. It's particularly helpful for video. Figma already has much better tools for this; Google's are not particularly powerful and buggy as hell.…

All of the things you mentioned (save maybe layer lists) are why I fell in love with Keynote, and wish I could use it for all presentations. Sadly, 99% of my time is spent in Google slides, which is like banging rocks together. Keynote's ability to do things like introspect into postscript/vector objects and align on lines within the object is one of those things that makes you re-evaluate how software should work. I…

I was a speaker at this years Figma Config (ends tomorrow) and we all had to use keynote since it has way better support for video and animations than goog.

I’m sure that won’t be the case next year with this new announcement.

Re: Figma Slides

#109

Post by bb86754 »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #82
timr wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All of the things you mentioned (save maybe layer lists) are why I fell in love with Keynote, and wish I could use it for all presentations. Sadly, 99% of my time is spent in Google slides, which is like banging rocks together. Keynote's ability to do things like introspect into postscript/vector objects and align on lines within the object is one of those things that makes you re-evaluate how software should work. I…

In my experience of many years, not only is Keynote fantastic, but Pages is better than Word and Numbers is better than Excel (though not the extensive Excel ecosystem).

Keynote is awesome. Last I checked a few years ago though Numbers was nowhere even close to Excel. No dynamic array formulas, Power Query, lambda functions, VBA, etc. All are pretty essential if you're doing anything beyond basic spreadsheets but I may need to checkout Numbers again.

Re: Figma Slides

#110

Post by hamandcheese »

chris37879 wrote: post #92
zeroonetwothree wrote: post #80

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It’s not ideal to have slides that only work if everyone is paying attention at all times. This animation should not be used to impart information. You can highlight changes in other ways.

I'd be curious to hear how you'd do the execution flow like they mention? Just use multiple sequential slides?

I'm not sure if this is considered animation or not, but I've demonstrated code refactors between slides by adding a colored border around the code in question (both in the before and in the after slide).

I'd probably do something similar for stepping through code. But at that point it's a quasi-animation (albeit, one that can still be understood by pdf slides).

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