Recently Figma added a long-awaited feature (for me at least) to Slides—the ability to create and use components within a presentation or template. However the implementation of this was not quite what I expected and doesn’t line up with how I use components in design files.

My issue is that I don’t really know where to keep the main components. Slides seems to be encouraging me to have them live on the slides themselves, but I that approach as always felt weird to me because I want components to be separated from content. In the template I created for my company, I also experimented with storing components on hidden appendix slides, but that felt off too. I  am currently keeping the main components off to the side somewhere, but they feel like they’re floating in space and lack organization. Plus, I can only really see them in the “all slides” view.

I think what I expected was something more like the ability to keep Slides components on a separate page altogether. Not sure if anyone else feels similarly but I wanted to discuss. The addition of components to Slides feels somewhat… lazy… to me at least? I know they are trying to walk the line of not just recreating the design mode inside of slides but I need something more, here.

Otherwise components in Slides are functioning as-expected. It’s just the organizing that is bothering me. Thoughts?