I’m wondering if this is a bug.
Sharing a ‘Presentation link’ gives the recipient a view-only view of the working Figma file along with notes. Makes sense if there are other presenters and they need to see the notes too.
Sharing an ‘Audience link’ gives the recipient a view-only view of the slides. However, it also allows them – who will very often be a client – to click a button at the top to open a view-only version of the Figma file along with all of the presentation notes.
Unfortunately, it’s currently not fit for purpose to share a link with clients, as there’s no way to send it purely for viewing without all the additional UI options to open in Figma and view notes etc.}
Ideally, there needs to be a sharable ‘Audience’ view of the slides where all that can be seen is the slides – no extras, no ‘sign in’, no ‘add comments’ (ideally this can be switched on OR off), and definitely no ‘open in Figma Slides’. Just a view of the slides, and that’s it.
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For clarity – I’m hoping for something that looks more like the view of a prototype when using the embed code. Just a completely plain view, with a carousel control, and without the Figma branding at the bottom. And that’s it.
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For anyone else wanting a quick fix to remove all the UI and just show the slides, I added this to the end of the url before I shared it with the client:
&hide-ui=1
Not ideal, as it can just be changed by a viewer and they can still open it in Figma and/or leave comments, but fixes it for now.
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@Dave_Montrose thank you for trouble shooting this flaw with Figma Slides, that I just encountered myself! Thank you for the solution—I’ll try it!
I was at first excited to build a prezi staying in my favorite design tool Figma—and then really frustrated when realizing (after investing in creating 60 content rich pixel perfect slides) — that I can’t SHARE the slides without giving them access to controls and my original file.
Also when sharing a link, my clients were required to go through a Figma sign-in/sign-up process: this is a barrier to clients opening the prezi, period.
Q: Do you know, is there a way to share Figma slides that doesn’t require the audience to go through a sign in process before opening the slides?
Thanks
Hey Kimberly – I’m afraid I actually ended up just transferring it all to Figma in the end. I’d created an agency creds deck, and really liked the fact I could use Adobe fonts, and include looping videos without controls, instead of gifs or YouTube-style videos like GSlides.
But I also noticed, as someone else on here has pointed out, that if you have video on a slide, hitting a key to move to the next slide takes a few presses. And I can’t send something like that to a client or prospect, or it’ll just frustrate them. so that kind-of killed it. In the end, I just used the embed/iframe function for the Figma prototype, and put it up on our company site in an unlisted url.
I’ll be holding off using Figma Slides again, esp for proposals, and sticking to Google until I can actually share the slides and just the slides, without a client or prospect being able to view the file and all the comments, and while things like comments and sign-in buttons don’t have an option to be hidden. Sorry I can’t give you a better/more helpful answer!