Prototype documentation / specification texts

Hey @Lars_G 👋

So, Figma has built in documentation fields for components & styles. They have description boxes and documentation link fields as you can see in my screenshot

Tis information is then visibile to designers through tool typ or style detail, and for developers through the inspect panel.

Is this what you’re suggesting here?

Hello, thanks for the quick reply. What you’re describing seems like documentation of styles and components. What I’m after is documentation/description text of the actual prototypes you build from these components.

In other words not how a specific icon or button type should be used for example, but instead describing the functionality of your prototype. For example what should happen when you press a certain button, or what information should be displayed in a field in your mockup.

There is a plugin (I didn’t try for myself) for that

It might work for you (I would like to know if it has)

Thanks for the tip, the “Annotate it!” plugin seems very promising in that it has an interface where you can create annotations linked to frames in your prototype like I’d like to. However, I’ve yet to understand how to then show that annotation text in presentation mode, and the little annotation markers/numbers only seem to be visible in edit mode.

Ideally I’d like something like this, but where the result is a list of such annotations that you can toggle on/off in presentation mode to read the beside the prototype display.

Has there been any changes or new ways to add annotations to designs for dev. Redlining specs since this post?