I’m in a company with a large sales team, with multiple client meetings weekly. So we have a lot of repetitive slide decks get duplicated and modified, with new content and infographics tweaked on a weekly basis. 

Templates for STYLING is amazing, as the only designer, I LONG for the days I don’t have to bully clumsily placed pixels, poorly cropped photography and off-brand typography in Keynote on a near-daily basis in order to keep our branding on point. 

However, despite Figma having by far the strongest offering regarding DESIGN templates (yay), a way to retrieve the CONTENT of slides, making CONTENT changes that could be published to ALL related slides is entirely lacking. 

If INDIVIDUAL SLIDES could be TAGGED, or otherwise CATEGORISED, it would make searching for, and maintaining relevancy of content much more effective. Currently as a sales team member, if we switched to Figma, I’d still have the problem of remembering not only which deck a certain slide exists in, not only checking if that information on the slide is currently up to date or not, but ALSO I’d need to identify all this from a thumbnail preview with no meta information available before opening the whole deck to check. 

Our current solution is a monster of an iCloud structure that’s becoming increasingly unruly to maintain, and as the designer in the company, nothing would make me more happy than moving the other members of my company over to Figma by implementing Slides as the new company standard. 

However, if we have to rely on a third-party slide repository system like Slidehub, we’re paying more than we would with Figma, and WORST OF ALL, we’re then locked in to POWERPOINT…. FOREVER... my absolute worst nightmare. 😔

Please Figma, introduce tags or categories, or even a search function that checks within the content of a deck, you’re my only hope! 

Somewhere between the CMS of Buzz, and the slick design of Slides is a dream, please keep my dream alive. 🙇