All of our serious decks are produced in Figma. Slides and PowerPoint can't make a good enough looking presentation.
Internal stuff, quick stuff to show clients, whatever, use Slides, but for trying to win new accounts, we use Figma.
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#32Funny, 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.
Even when you pay for enterprise, Google support will say things like, “Just change your brand font to use a Google Font!” It’s pretty awful and arrogant.
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#33Funny, 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.
They do, but it’s not easy to use.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Even when you pay for enterprise, Google support will say things like, “Just change your brand font to use a Google Font!” It’s pretty awful and arrogant.
I understand a large amount of the technical and legal reasons for this, but I agree.
It hurts my position greatly as an advocate of their services internally and leads to us having to use Powerpoint anyway.
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#35How much they will charge for something we can already do?
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#36At 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.
- Consistency. Google Slides will sometimes render the same text object with wrapping at different points on different machines. I shouldn't have to manually add line breaks to deal with this.
- Precision and flexibility. Google Slides just isn't anywhere near as smooth at design work as Figma. I don't even consider myself a designer and yet I regularly hit Google Slides's limitations.
- Layer/object lists. (Note: I don't see this in the Figma Slides demos, but I assume it's available in design mode?) Once you have a bunch of shapes on a slide, especially grouped, it makes selection so much easier. I don't want to play click roulette when trying to select one object from a pile.
(If you're wondering why I'm focused on Google Slides: Apple Keynote is great but can't collaborate through Google Workspace. I haven't used PowerPoint much, it's okay.)
UPDATE: I've now done a little playing with Figma Slides.
The good news is that it has an object list. But it's only in Design Mode. (So it won't be available to free or non-designer accounts - that's a Figma thing.)
The bad news is that in this beta the animation tools are even less flexible than Google Slides: you can only choose from a limited set of transitions; those transitions apply to the entire slide, not to individual objects; and there's no way to change the timing or easing. However, "smart animate" is one of the transitions, which does a Magic-Move-like "move the objects in slide 1 to their positions in slide 2".
(Note the emphasis on this beta. Figma Slides won't be considered GA until next year, so I'm hoping that all the animation tools from regular Figma will be available by then.)
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#37All of our serious decks are produced in Figma. Slides and PowerPoint can't make a good enough looking presentation. Internal stuff, quick stuff to show clients, whatever, use Slides, but for trying to win new accounts, we use Figma.
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.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
For architecture diagrams Ive found Google drawing will work for my use cases. And if its something fancy, lucidchart.
I would definitely use Draw.io over Google Drawings. That sounds a bit masochistic to be honest!
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.
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#39At 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.
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#40Funny, 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.