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Figma has so many things on the go (Sites, Make, etc), I doubt Slides is going to get the investment and TLC it needs. I also try to avoid cloud first. If serv

Figma has so many things on the go (Sites, Make, etc), I doubt Slides is going to get the investment and TLC it needs. I also try to avoid cloud first. If servers are slow or down or you're locked out for whatever reason, you won't have access to your own files. Prefer apps like Powerpoint or Keynote. Local first and back up to the cloud.

tobr 1y ago
What the article describes about Slides, last year’s big new Figma feature, doesn’t inspire confidence in the half-dozen new features from this year.
- kingkongjaffa 1y ago
  Yeah. Figma itself is great. Figjam (digital whiteboarding, sticky notes) is okay, but one might move over to Miro or any other and it wouldn’t really matter which tool you use. Everything else is a distraction. Devs don’t want or need dev mode. Slides doesn’t make any sense, figma and figjam work just fine for presentation. The AI tools are really bad (asking for layouts and stuff using AI in figjam is just broken) Slides was literally made because they realised customers were using figma for presentations. Being a tool native with the story teller is probably better. Heavily rehearsed presentations are dumb anyway inside a company, we’re not doing PR, there’s no black turtleneck here. The best presentations at every level are a conversation between the presenter (trying to inform or spur a decision to be made) and the audience. I really wished they had gone more the way of Linear - focus on doing a few things really well.
  - makeitdouble 1y ago
    > Heavily rehearsed presentations are dumb anyway inside a company, we’re not doing PR, there’s no black turtleneck here. At some size, it becomes needed. For the average employee it will come a time they need to convince higher ups of doing something they don't have any plans to do. For managers/VPs they'll need to get people onboard for controversial and widely impacting changes. Rehearsal and a well prepared and presentable message will be needed if you want to put the odds on your side.
cosmic_cheese 1y ago
> I also try to avoid cloud first. If servers are slow or down or you're locked out for whatever reason, you won't have access to your own files. I still use Sketch instead of Figma for projects that are solo and where collaboration doesn’t require that the other participants have edit capabilities for this reason (among others). Not only is it weird that with Figma you don’t get to keep a local file if you don’t constantly export to keep your local copy up to date, it means that your full fidelity work is locked up in a proprietary format that’s subject to sudden change at the company’s whims, breaking any tools reverse engineered for the purpose of liberating users’ work. By contrast, while Sketch has a cloud mode it can also be local-first and its maker publishes an open spec for its file format. That’s the right way to do things.

tobr 1y ago

What the article describes about Slides, last year’s big new Figma feature, doesn’t inspire confidence in the half-dozen new features from this year.

kingkongjaffa 1y ago
Yeah. Figma itself is great. Figjam (digital whiteboarding, sticky notes) is okay, but one might move over to Miro or any other and it wouldn’t really matter which tool you use. Everything else is a distraction. Devs don’t want or need dev mode. Slides doesn’t make any sense, figma and figjam work just fine for presentation. The AI tools are really bad (asking for layouts and stuff using AI in figjam is just broken) Slides was literally made because they realised customers were using figma for presentations. Being a tool native with the story teller is probably better. Heavily rehearsed presentations are dumb anyway inside a company, we’re not doing PR, there’s no black turtleneck here. The best presentations at every level are a conversation between the presenter (trying to inform or spur a decision to be made) and the audience. I really wished they had gone more the way of Linear - focus on doing a few things really well.
- makeitdouble 1y ago
  > Heavily rehearsed presentations are dumb anyway inside a company, we’re not doing PR, there’s no black turtleneck here. At some size, it becomes needed. For the average employee it will come a time they need to convince higher ups of doing something they don't have any plans to do. For managers/VPs they'll need to get people onboard for controversial and widely impacting changes. Rehearsal and a well prepared and presentable message will be needed if you want to put the odds on your side.

cosmic_cheese 1y ago

> I also try to avoid cloud first. If servers are slow or down or you're locked out for whatever reason, you won't have access to your own files. I still use Sketch instead of Figma for projects that are solo and where collaboration doesn’t require that the other participants have edit capabilities for this reason (among others). Not only is it weird that with Figma you don’t get to keep a local file if you don’t constantly export to keep your local copy up to date, it means that your full fidelity work is locked up in a proprietary format that’s subject to sudden change at the company’s whims, breaking any tools reverse engineered for the purpose of liberating users’ work. By contrast, while Sketch has a cloud mode it can also be local-first and its maker publishes an open spec for its file format. That’s the right way to do things.