Figma Slides: Sections for Organized, Navigable Presentations
FigmaFigma Slides introduced Sections on May 18, 2026, giving teams a dedicated way to organize and navigate presentations as they grow. Sections map to named slide rows: users can label each section, drag to reorder them, and jump between sections during live presentations from both Presenter View and Audience View. Sections also appear in the layers panel in Design Mode, bringing the same structural clarity designers expect from the Figma canvas into the presentation editing experience.
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Sections Come to Figma Slides
Figma Slides added a long-requested organizational capability on May 18, 2026: Sections. As presentation decks grow in length and complexity — spanning multiple speakers, topics, or acts — the absence of high-level navigation has been a friction point for teams using Figma Slides professionally. Sections directly address this gap.
What Sections Do
Sections in Figma Slides are named groupings of slide rows. Each section can be given a meaningful label (for example, "Introduction", "Problem Statement", or "Q&A"), making the structure of a deck immediately legible at a glance.
The core capabilities include:
- Naming: Label each slide row with a section title visible throughout the interface.
- Drag-to-reorder: Entire sections can be repositioned by dragging, enabling rapid restructuring of a full presentation without moving individual slides.
- Jump navigation: In both Presenter View and Audience View, sections appear as navigation landmarks. Presenters can skip directly to any section without scrubbing through slides one by one — especially useful during live presentations when pivoting to a specific topic on the fly.
- Layers panel integration: Sections appear in the Design Mode layers panel, giving designers the same hierarchical view they rely on in the main Figma canvas. This keeps large decks legible and navigable in the editing environment, not just during playback.
Why It Matters
Figma Slides positions itself as a design-native alternative to tools like Google Slides and PowerPoint — one that lives inside the same environment where product teams already design and collaborate. As teams have adopted Figma Slides for all-hands decks, sales pitches, and design reviews, the absence of a sections-level organization model became increasingly noticeable compared to legacy tools that have offered chapter navigation for years.
The sections feature makes Figma Slides meaningfully more viable for long-form, multi-section presentations. Audience View navigation in particular is a significant upgrade: stakeholders following along asynchronously can now orient themselves within a deck's structure, rather than scrolling through a flat list of slides.
Sections began rolling out to all Figma Slides users on May 18, 2026.