Figma Slides – share a plain 'Audience' link, without the ability to open in Figma, view slide notes, or add comments

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.

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.

@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!

Agreed on all of this. We have found Slides to be indispensable in our work and we use it/Figma solely for building dynamic presentations (w/ the ability to use our fonts). Most times we’re sharing with clients who are on the business side of things and need an easy experience to view. Would be great to share without any of the open in Figma/share stuff at top, but with the left/right arrows/restart at the bottom for clear navigation.

Being able to have a thumbnail view as an option would be great too to quickly move up/down slides, but not any presenter notes, etc.

I need to share a presentation link to a client and only allow commenting, while restricting access to view file and speaker notes, etc. Is this possible?

@dave, thanks for sharing that workaround. Has there been any updates here? Want to use figma slides with sometype of Audience mode. Just like sharing a pdf presentation. No interactions outside of viewing the deck.