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Re: Figma Slides

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Post by azangru »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #40
chatmasta wrote: post #26

Funny, I was just wondering today why Google doesn’t have an infinite canvas product. All I want is Google Slides with an infinite canvas. Products like Figma, Miro, and Excalidraw are all great, but they’re not integrated into Google Workspace like Docs/Slides. I like comments, tagging users, auto-completing links to other docs with their title, etc.

Google had something called Jamboard that kinda fits the description. But Google being Google, it was recently discontinued.

Jamboard was never an infinite canvas. It was a very awkward thing that didn't allow you to select multiple items at once (or if it did, I never discovered how), or to expand the canvas to accommodate more content.

Re: Figma Slides

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Post by wodenokoto »

al_borland wrote: post #81
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…

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…

That thing about the presentation having a color scheme match the emotion and villains and heroes.

Is there an essay that analyzes the iPhone launch as you would a book or a movie?

Re: Figma Slides

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Post by wafriedemann »

gherkinnn wrote: post #118

I have fallen in love with the opposite approach: IA Presenter [0] (no affiliation). It's just markdown and content. The rest is taken from you. 0 - https://ia.net/presenter

I read the announcement ages ago. This is it now? Something everyone can replicate with html in less than 5 minutes? Edit: and of course it's subscription-based.

Re: Figma Slides

#134

Post by sirjaz »

wraptile wrote: post #117
sirjaz wrote: post #102

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.

While I'd agree with you 99% of the time Figma's web stack is probably one of the very few that can actually compete against native/desktop apps.

Figma has done an amazing job, I just don't want to depend on a constant connection for my software, and someone else's computer

Re: Figma Slides

#135

Post by perryizgr8 »

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).

> Numbers is better than Excel

???????

Nothing is better than Excel.

Re: Figma Slides

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Post by FireInsight »

Tried it, wrote a long comment here, but seems I accidentally discarded that. Here's the gist of it; The product does not from other presentation tools except in that it is integrated with Figma. Only the best parts of Figma, the design things, are very much restricted unless you pay for a subscription that includes design mode. There are still some bugs, and animation support it underwhelming and slide transitions don't work as well as in other applications.

As a casual user, I would have loved something more integrated with the design workspace in Figma. With how the product is now, I might as well continue using Libreoffice Impress and get way more features at the cost of having to use an ugly piece of software.

Re: Figma Slides

#137

Post by SebastianKra »

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…

Considering how bad tools parasitically benefit from rigid company structures, I'd diversify where possible and deal with the incompatibilities when they arise, rather than get locked into even more Software like Jira, Teams, etc...

Ideally, coworkers should discover the best tools for themselves and then get recommendations from each other.

My company somehow managed to get sold a proprietary VPN when Wireguard and OpenVPN exist. Obviously the only compatible client is bad.

Re: Figma Slides

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

flakiness wrote: post #13
tyleo wrote: post #6

Hell, I’m a dev and I already produce most of my slide shows in Figma. I’m so happy a dedicated product is coming! I find Figma unmatched for architecture diagrams. It’s nice to have them at my disposal when preparing slide shows.

Just curious, why do you use Figma over other slide making tools? Just for architecture diagrams, or your familiarity with the tool? I'm not a Figma user and have no clue, and am wondering if it's worth giving a shot as a new user.

Ultimately it just feels better, over Keynote I’d say better alignment controls, less defaults to unset, collaboration and sharing which keynote lacks, zoom out to see the whole thing and move things about easier.

Also because it’s already an excellent design tool you never hit the wall where a diagram can’t be created in it like you hit often in Keynote/PPT/Google Slides

(I haven’t tried Figma Slides yet, this is normal Figma)

Re: Figma Slides

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Post by gcanyon »

tveyben wrote: post #122
gcanyon wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> put multiple spreadsheets on a page I’ve been hot for this feature since the Improv days — I browbeat the AppleWorks people to support it better, and when a bunch of them split off to build I made sure they knew this was a key feature. Ragtime still supports it as far as I know. https://www.ragtime.de/start.html?lang_id=en

Ragtime is still a thing??? I had the pleasure of working in Ragtime 2.5 and then 3 in 199x on a MacPlus (I had a job translating the manual for Cricket Presents - “PowerPoint” before PowerPoint - from English to danish). It was one of the reasons I ‘got in to computers’(Macs) - it felt like it could ‘do it all’ and was so easy to use (at the time x86 based pc’s did not do the same for me…

Remarkably enough it seems so. Unfortunately I've never been in a place where 1. I needed its particular skillset 2. It was the best candidate for the job.

I love the idea of having multiple worksheets in a particular document so much, and yet 99.9% of the time I just throw open a google sheet and start throwing in numbers. The collaboration smoothness is a beats-all-else feature.

Re: Figma Slides

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Post by philjackson »

FireInsight wrote: post #136

Tried it, wrote a long comment here, but seems I accidentally discarded that. Here's the gist of it; The product does not from other presentation tools except in that it is integrated with Figma. Only the best parts of Figma, the design things, are very much restricted unless you pay for a subscription that includes design mode. There are still some bugs, and animation support it underwhelming and slide transitions d…

I'm the CTO of Pitch, so obvious bias here, but have you tried our product? Would love to know what you miss from Impress when using Pitch.
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