Figma - Figma for Edu: 11 things that just make sense in Figma Slides
The video outlines 11 features in Figma Slides that enhance presentation creation. These include automatic background contrast adjustments for text visibility, a variety of templates for easy slide creation, and a grid view for organizing slides. Slide numbers can be added and formatted across all slides, and multi-edit allows simultaneous editing of elements on multiple slides. Components enable reusable elements that update across all instances. Speaker notes can be added for presenter guidance, and videos can be embedded with playback options. Present mode allows offline access and audience sharing. Live interactions like polls and prototypes can be integrated, and Smart Animate facilitates smooth transitions between slides. These features streamline the design process and improve presentation quality.
Key Points:
- Automatic background contrast adjusts text color for visibility.
- Templates offer pre-designed slides and customizable styles.
- Grid view provides an overview and organization of slides.
- Multi-edit and components allow efficient editing and updates.
- Smart Animate enables smooth transitions between slides.
Details:
1. 🎨 Introduction to Figma Slides Features
- Figma Slides automatically adjusts text color based on background contrast, enhancing accessibility.
- Dark backgrounds result in white text, while light backgrounds result in black text, ensuring readability.
- Figma Slides includes real-time collaboration features, allowing multiple users to work on the same presentation simultaneously.
- The platform supports integration with other tools, streamlining the workflow for designers.
- Figma offers a range of design elements and templates to help users create visually appealing presentations quickly.
- The tool provides a seamless experience across different devices, maintaining consistency and accessibility.
2. 🖼️ Templates and Styles
- The template picker allows for selecting and browsing various slide templates within Figma, offering flexibility in design choices.
- Users can choose specific templates like the 'university course syllabus' and easily add them to their deck, enhancing efficiency in slide creation.
- Template colors can be remixed and applied across all elements of selected slides, facilitating cohesive design changes.
- Multiple slides can be selected and remixed simultaneously, allowing for consistent styling across a presentation.
- Templates come with a typographic hierarchy (title header, subheader, body, and caption) and predefined color palettes, streamlining the design process.
3. 🔍 Grid View and Slide Numbers
- Figma slides offer two viewing modes: slides view and grid view, allowing users to switch between a detailed or an overview perspective of their presentation.
- Grid view provides an eagle eye view of all slides, facilitating easier navigation and organization of the presentation.
- Users can create new rows and slides within the grid view to map out the presentation efficiently.
- Holding the shift key enables the selection of multiple slides, which can then be moved collectively to a different row, enhancing organizational flexibility.
- The shortcut for toggling between grid view and slides view is 'shift + period', allowing quick transitions between the two modes.
4. 📝 Multi Edit and Slide Numbers
- Figma slides now have the ability to add slide numbers, addressing a highly requested feature by users.
- Slide numbers can be inserted via the inserts menu or by pressing shift + I.
- Options include choosing whether to count all slides or only the slides within a specific row.
- Users can include the total number of slides, e.g., 'slide 3 of 12'.
- Slide numbers can be added to all slides in a deck with a single action.
- Slide numbers adjust automatically when slides are moved around.
- Formatting of slide numbers can be changed and reapplied to the entire presentation.
5. 🔄 Components and Reusability
- The multi-edit functionality allows users to edit multiple slides simultaneously, significantly enhancing workflow efficiency by reducing repetitive tasks.
- Users can select matching layers to apply changes to all identical objects, ensuring consistency across slides.
- Alignment tools are available to maintain consistent positioning of objects across multiple slides, improving overall design uniformity.
- For example, users can edit footer text once and apply the changes to all slides, saving substantial time in presentation updates.
- A shortcut, such as the 'Enter' key, provides quick access to multi-edit features, increasing the speed of workflows.
- The functionality supports easy relocation and alignment of selected text or objects, facilitating streamlined slide design.
6. 🗒️ Speaker Notes and Video Integration
- Reusable components allow updates to be made in one place, affecting all slides where they are used, enhancing consistency and saving time.
- A footer component, including elements like slide numbers, can be integrated across all slides to maintain uniformity.
- In Figma, combining logos, text, and slide numbers into an auto layout frame can be converted into a reusable component.
- Any updates to the main component, such as text changes, propagate across all instances, ensuring consistent presentation formatting.
- Multi-select and multi-edit functions in Figma streamline the process, allowing for efficient management of presentation elements.
- Text style adjustments, such as changing from header to body, apply globally when set in the component, maintaining a consistent look.
- The use of components significantly reduces editing time and enhances presentation management by ensuring uniformity and ease of updates.
7. 🎥 Video Settings and Present Mode
- Figma slides allow for easy addition of speaker notes, which can be shown or edited during presentation mode, providing flexibility for presenters using dual screens.
- Videos can be integrated into presentations if they are in MP4 or MOV format and under 100MB, allowing dynamic content without compromising performance.
- Video settings in slides offer autoplay, loop, sound, and playback controls, enhancing the presentation experience with flexible media options.
8. 📡 Present Mode and Sharing Options
- Present mode includes an option to make presentations available offline, ensuring videos play correctly even without internet connectivity.
- Keeping the presentation tab open allows full navigation of the presentation offline.
- Users can share presentations by copying an audience link, enabling the audience to follow along seamlessly.
9. 🔗 Live Interactions and Prototypes
- Live interactions can be added to presentations, such as polls, allowing real-time audience engagement and feedback.
- Polls can include options like 'Love it', 'Like it', and 'It's okay', providing immediate feedback on presentations.
- Prototypes from Figma can be integrated into presentations for interactive critiques, allowing real-time navigation and adjustments.
- Presenters can control poll visibility, either hiding or revealing results to the audience as needed.
- Interactive prototypes enable audience participation by navigating and interacting with the design directly during the presentation.
10. ✨ Smart Animate and Slide Transitions
- Smart Animate simplifies creating animations between frames in Figma Design's prototyping tool, allowing for seamless slide transitions.
- Users can duplicate slides using Command D (Control D on Windows) to progress animations easily.
- Transition options include dissolve, push, slide in/out, move in/out, with Smart Animate offering the smoothest transitions.
- Animation duration can be set by adjusting the ease in and out curve, such as setting it to 350 milliseconds for optimal effect.
- Smart Animate requires similarly named objects across frames for effective animations, emphasizing the need for naming consistency.
- Text editing across multiple slides is streamlined using multi-edit text mode, enabling batch changes across selected frames.
- Easing types, such as 'quick', can be adjusted to modify transition speeds, offering customization in animation pacing.
- A slide reminder about Smart Animate can be integrated into presentations, enhancing user engagement with its features.
11. 📚 Recap of 11 Features in Figma Slides
- Background contrast feature automatically adjusts text color based on the background for better readability.
- Templates can be published and mixed, including layout and style consistency across slides.
- Grid view allows easy switching with shortcut shift + period for better slide management.
- Slide numbers can be easily inserted and updated globally from the insert menu.
- Multi edit enables simultaneous editing of selected objects across multiple slides, enhancing efficiency.
- Components feature supports creating and updating reusable elements with automatic updates across instances.
- Speaker notes are available for adding key presentation points to assist during delivery.
- Video integration includes adding videos with looping and player visibility options for dynamic presentations.
- Present mode supports interactive sharing, commenting, and offline presentations by downloading slides.
- Live interactions feature enables adding voting, polls, and interactive prototypes for audience engagement.
- Smart animate creates animations across slides for smooth transitions and engaging presentations.