Slides: Can you add animations to groups and objects within slides?

+1 Need this as well. PowerPoint does have this, so why won’t we implement this minimum feature in Figma slides?

Hey All, thanks for the feedback!

We’ll pass this onto the Slides team for future consideration.

The slides product is very promising, but this is a key missing feature!

Some tools only offer limited animation options, so you can’t stagger or individually animate objects like you want. While duplicating slides and using smart animate is a clever workaround, having to click or use the spacebar to trigger each slide can feel a bit clunky. It would definitely be nice if you could set animations to trigger automatically with a delay or manage them easily from a grid view.

Yes please, this is much needed for designers who needs to pass on presentations to their marketing counterparts who aren’t as familiar with Figma controls. The animation triggers need to feel seamless and easy to manage! TY!

Literally Figma Design is better for presentations than Figma Slides.

This is such a key feature in my opinion—when presenting, you don’t want to reveal everything all at once. It can come across as overwhelming for the audience and isn’t the best design approach. Honestly, I think this would be more valuable than the AI-generated text, just saying! 😊 Any updates on when this might be included?

I discovered this limit when I already designed 60 slides.. so now I think I have to transpose everything on Figma Design to prototype objects, I couldn’t imagine Figma Slides didn’t have this feature.

​@simsaur I had the same reaction though not as far in as you. 

Generally if you are using slide transitions/smart animations to manage individual elements you are also creating a horribly bloated and difficult to manage presentation. 

Simply having objects to appear on click does seem like a basic requirement in any presentation tool I can think of other than Prezo. 

This feature should absolutely be the next one implemented. The lack of it forces some people to use PowerPoint rather than Figma Slides. I agree with the guy who says Figma Design is currently better for presentations than Figma Slides.

I think the duplicate slides animation approach could work well, if the extra animation slides didn’t count as a new slide but rather a “transition slide” -- they are all grouped together, and you didn’t feel like you were adding 2x as many slides to have animations.

this also means that if you want say 3 animations within the same slide content, you need 3 slides with varying content according to your needs, sort of as a hack. This seems easy, but you better have your content PERFECT before duplicating your slides twice. If you need to go back and make any changes or additions to any of the static elements from slide one to three, you’ll probably need to start over.