Save Time on Building Decks—Without Sacrificing Design | Figma Blog (opens in new tab)
Figma’s Slides plugins extend the presentation tool with Figma’s design capabilities, helping teams create polished decks without sacrificing speed or visual quality. The post highlights plugins for finding assets, creating custom backgrounds, importing PDFs, and adding animation. Together, they support the full slide-building process, from initial content gathering through final presentation preparation. ## Populating Your Slides - **IconScout** provides millions of icons, illustrations, Lottie animations, and Unicons. - Users can customize assets with their own color palettes. - Reverse image search helps find visually similar graphics. - **Mesh Gradient** creates custom backgrounds and color fills. - Designers can edit grid vertices and edges. - Live previews and the ability to save or upload gradients support iterative design work. - **PDF.to.design** imports PDFs as editable designs. - Text and images can be extracted and reused in slides. - Files remain private on the user’s local machine, which helps protect sensitive information. ## Adding Power and Polish - **Jitter** is presented as a tool for animating slide designs, helping make presentations more dynamic and engaging. - The broader plugin ecosystem includes tools for visual refinement, color controls, and motion, allowing teams to tailor slides to their brand and narrative. ## Preparing to Present - The article’s final section focuses on tools for getting decks presentation-ready, continuing the workflow from asset creation and design polish to delivery. Figma recommends using Slides plugins as a practical way to speed up deck creation while preserving control over layout, branding, visuals, and storytelling.