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# Goodbye Google Slides. Hello, Figma
- URL: https://www.howardgray.net/goodbye-google-slides-hello-figma/
- Published: 2024-08-09T00:19:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-04T14:04:14.000Z
- Author: Howard Gray
- Tags: Creative Business, How-To Guides, Learning, Education & Growth, Resources

Death by Powerpoint? Perhaps ‘Death of Powerpoint’ is more apt. Because Figma just launched a slide design tool, and it’s pretty, pretttttty, prettttty good.

About 18 months ago I was ready to ditch Google Slides. It was driving my nuts. Let’s not even get started on Powerpoint.

As me and the [**Wavetable**](https://www.wavetable.net/?ref=howardgray.net) team had been using Figma for designing various digital products and learning materials, we thought we’d give it a whirl for slides.

In just a couple of weeks, we’d built all the content for a multi-module online course.

Soon, Figma was the home for keynotes, workshops, sales decks, worksheets, and more.

However, there were a few thorny issues:

- It’s tricky to use if you’re not a decent designer (I’m passable at best)
- Exporting slides was clunky
- Most obviously - it’s not a slide tool! No presenter notes, transitions, or other presentation essentials

Basically, we were following our instincts. Hacking it.

Then, last week our lead designer sent me a note: “Howard, have you seen this?”

A new tool, called [Figma Slides](https://www.figma.com/slides/?ref=howardgray.net).

We’ve gone in deep, and I gotta say, it’s very cool.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/d8/1a/d81abdb4-b001-4d5e-9a22-7d2a3d72df17/content/images/2024/10/Figma-Slides--2-.png)

There are brand kits, real-time collaboration, interactions. All your design assets linked together.

And we can work FAST.

I just spun out three pitch deck variations in under an hour. Overnight an upcoming workshop went from a fiddly Google Slides draft to a super-sleek Figma build.

Along with Notion for documents and project planning, and Whimsical for visualizations, Figma just became the third pillar of our team’s foundational toolkit. Sorry, Google.

P.S. I don’t mind admitting we love nerding out on this stuff. Perhaps **Fer Franco** said it best: “Such a good feeling when a product gets an update like this!”. I agree.