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Re: Figma Slides

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Post by maccard »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #39
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.…

> I use animation a lot, My personal preference is the opposite: I came to hate presentations that use animations. Any presentation that can't be presented in static pdf is a presentation I'd rather miss.

> Any presentation that can't be presented in static pdf is a presentation I'd rather miss.

I feel the complete opposite - if the presentation can be distilled in a static PDF, I'd rather just read the blog post. The entire point of a presentation is being engaged with the speaker to me.

Re: Figma Slides

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Post by bmitc »

blackoil wrote: post #104
bmitc wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 And, as if developers use a non-plethora of non-esoteric, non-outdated tooling.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

Why do others need to be able to use the tool?

By the way, Figma has powerful live collaboration features.

Re: Figma Slides

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Post by dbbk »

dijit wrote: post #29
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 slides has other pretty major problems for presenting things. Notably if your corporate identity requires the use of a specific font, then its not possible. Figma is a lot better in this regard, but the pricing is aggressive for the design part.

Object sizing and alignment is also garbage, barely functional, and has not been fixed in decades.

Re: Figma Slides

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Post by schnable »

toddmorey wrote: post #65
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.…

Yeah it's like slide software was bifurcated: either you can actually collaborate (google) or make quality slides (keynote). Finally some hope: Figma actually does both of those things really well. I'm also excited by what you can potentially do programmatically in Figma. Has anyone ever tried using the google slides API? It’s one of those APIs where you sort of wonder if you are the only actual user or if other peop…

It also really stinks at resizing raster images, as does all Gsuite apps. It makes diagrams look terrible.

Re: Figma Slides

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Post by turnsout »

Wow… This is going to murder Google Slides in the design industry. We only used Slides because it was remote friendly—designing slide layouts in it was absolute torture.

Re: Figma Slides

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Post by alexb_ »

A ton of people in the comments are talking about Google Slides. Does nobody use PowerPoint anymore? What advantages does Google Slides have over good old fashioned PPT?

Re: Figma Slides

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Post by te_chris »

azangru wrote: post #131
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Agree. The fixed canvas size in Jamboard is incredibly annoying and limiting.

Re: Figma Slides

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Post by earthnail »

wafriedemann wrote: post #133
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.

Give it a try. It's all about workflow. And they have a one-time purchase option as well; no need to subscribe if you don't like subs (which I understand).
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