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Slido’s new interface is now permanent for all users 🚀

 

Although we are saying goodbye to some elements, the new interface experience is much more intuitive, putting ease of use and efficiency at the forefront. 

 

See below for the details and context behind our decisions:

 

 

Features returning before May 27th
 

  • Ability to search within your Q&A
    UPDATE: Released for all users as of May 27th ✅
     
  • Improved ability to share announcements with your audience
    UPDATE: Released for all users as of May 5th ✅
     
  • Reuse polls you’ve previously created
    UPDATE: Released for all users as of May 6th ✅
     
  • Poll templates for getting you started
    UPDATE: Released for all users as of March 18th ✅
     
  • Ability to filter Q&A by Label in Present mode
    UPDATE: Released for all users as of May 23rd ✅

 

 

Features that may return in the future

 

The ability to group polls together (similar to the Sessions feature) is one option that we are still exploring how or if it will return to the new interface. If you used Sessions often, please share the details about your use case in the comments.
 

 

Features leaving permanently

 

Developing the new interface gave us the opportunity to look critically at our product and understand how it was being used. As a result, there are elements of Slido that we will be sunsetting.

 

  • Agenda/Session: We developed the agenda feature when we were mostly used at conferences. In 2024, Slido is mostly used within companies to help facilitate conversation between leaders and their teams. This means that the agenda feature has very low usage and so we decided against the investment it would need to modernize the technology it’s built on. Learn more
     
  • Ideas: The Ideas feature was designed in a way that makes it difficult to evolve. We are currently exploring other brainstorming poll designs, including an enhanced open text poll, that will better address the needs of our users. Learn more
     
  • Show results as pie chart (multiple choice poll): This is another feature with low usage. The improvements needed to match our quality standards are simply too costly.
     
  • Switcher app: With Slido for PowerPoint now supporting macOS, there’s less and less need for Switcher. The Switcher app is currently used by less than 1% of all users and used within less than 1% of all slidos – which means we simply couldn’t justify updating it for the new interface. Learn more
     
  • Star a Q&A question: This feature was replaced with our more powerful Q&A Labels function.
     
  • Archive a Q&A reply: This has been replaced with the Delete reply action.
     
  • Disabling polls: Bringing the ability to disable polling into the new interface presented us with a large challenge. Every option to do so created a greater friction in the user experience. For this reason, and because polling has always been a core functionality of Slido, we made the decision to not reintroduce this option. Learn more

 

Students can post questions on my Slido for 2-3 days prior to each teaching session. 100 is a bit of an exaggeration, but there may be 20-30 questions. On the morning of the session i add labels to each, and then think about the order in which I want to discuss them. Then, in the teaching session, I will bring up the questions associated with a label on my display and ‘star’ them, which will show them to the audience on the projector screen (in the presentation view). So, at any one time, there will only be 1-3 questions on the screen that they can see. When I’m done discussing those 1-3 questions, I mark them as answered (or whatever the option is), which drops them from the presentation view, choose the next label, and repeat the process above. 

It appears as though I will no longer be able to do this. It seems that if I want to discuss all 20-30 questions with students, I will soon need to just have them all up on screen, and scroll up and down looking for the ones I want to discuss. Is this the case? If so, this is a massive reduction in functionality. 

 

 

Hey @PJA ,

Thanks for your feedback, if you’re willing to share your use case a bit more, we’d love to talk to you. 

Please utilize the calendly link above to meet with us directly so we can understand your feedback first hand and use it for further development of the New Interace.

Best,

I’ll miss the Ideas feature and hope it comes back. We used it for brainstorming proposals from audience and then approval voting on them.

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