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Hello! Just wanted to report my experience coming from a design interview held on Zoom. I had a different interview on Teams where I also used Slides, but didn’t experience the same issues.



  1. When I tried to present only the audience view while I remained on the presenter screen, the screen share would switch to my presenter screen, making them see my speaker notes. Even though I’ve specified the window to use, it’s somehow recognizing both my Figma windows as one screen

  2. I had to move to browser, but even then, everytime I moved to the next slide in presenter view, I had to refocus back to the audience window for it to update

  3. My live prototype desktop embed did not work during the presentation. I tested this on my own within the app, but when I had to switch to browser, my interactions did not work at all and I had to pull up the actual design file

  4. Adding speaker notes was working perfectly the other day with another deck, but while I was working on this deck, it would not let me add my own notes without first clicking on the “draft with AI” button; only then when it’s been filled with AI text can I edit it


I understand Figma Slides is still in beta, so wanted to report these bugs for improvement, and see if anyone else experienced something similar. I’ve loved it so far for personal use, but these bugs really introduced a lot of friction throughout my otherwise well-prepared interview presentation.


Thanks!

Experiencing the same issue of screen sharing. Seems like it shares a part of the screen of the size of the window you’ve selected (in this case, its presentation view), and if your Figma slides file or speaker notes is overlapping in that sharing viewport, it will be visible to the audience. Luckily I tested it before presenting, otherwise I would have made a fool of myself. Eventually I had to export the Figma slides to pdf and then google slides and then present.

I had the same issue when presenting in Teams. I had the Presenter view open with my notes and I was screen-sharing the window with the Audience view. For some reason, the slides weren’t advancing on the Audience view until I moved to the Audience view window. When I tried to advance the slides from the Audience view directly, the transitions didn’t work. I tried troubleshooting the issue by changing the screen sharing settings, removing the transitions, etc. but nothing worked.In the end I had to send a link to the meeting presenter so they could share their whole screen and spotlighted me in the deck.

For reference I was using Figma Slides on the desktop app for Mac and with my Macbook in clamshell mode, connected to an external monitor.

Hey everyone, thanks so much for surfacing this. We definitely don’t want anyone to be caught off guard when presenting, so I really appreciate the thoughtful reactions. 🙏🏻

 

Firstly, ​@daggers and ​@Vikram Solanki — have you noticed any improvements since you first reported these issues? I’d love to know if anything’s changed on your end and if the experience has become more predictable.

 

I just ran through some testing based on the feedback here — here’s a summary of what I found:

 

Screen Sharing Behavior

There’s an opportunity to create more clarity on what the audience sees and what the presenter sees when sharing a presentation.

Using Zoom and the Figma Desktop App, I found this process worked best:

  • In Zoom, choose Share > under Application windows > select the presentation from the Figma Desktop App (be sure Figma Slides is in Present mode by clicking the ▶️ button). With that, you’ll see an option to select the “My screen” tab at the top of the Zoom window > click that so you can be sure you see what your audience sees.
  • In the Figma Desktop App, using the “Notes only” option and resizing the window helped me keep my script near the camera — made it feel more natural when presenting. I was able to use either the arrow buttons on my keyboard or select slides with my mouse to move the presentation forward. 
  • This setup allowed me to manage the presentation between these two apps (as two separate windows). For more details, have a look at this Figma Learn article: Present a slide deck.

 

Prototype & Speaker Notes

I was able to get these features working as expected using the Figma Desktop App.

  • ​@daggers, hopefully you’re seeing the same behavior now — but if not, let me know if anything unexpected is still happening and we can dig deeper.

 

Teams-Specific Issue with Clamshell Mode

​I’d love to look into the issue you described, though I don’t currently have access to test on Teams.

  • ​@Luca Toscano, if you’re able to share a short video showing what’s happening along with information on the type of external monitor you’re using, that would be super helpful for us to investigate further.

 

Thanks again for all the detail — really appreciate this kind of feedback. We want to make sure no one misses a beat when presenting live.🎙️️

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