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Pretty ambiguously worded question, I know.


What I mean is: I am designing an app in Figma. Obviously when you use any app, the screen looks different second by second, ish. For instance, when you try to log in with an email, but you mistype your email, a new thing comes up, like a red box around the email box saying “try again,” or whatever. There are many minor things like this every time you use an app.


Is the basic approach to make a new frame for every new “thing,” i.e., every time the screen looks different at all? Obviously to an extent only. At this rate, my Figma file will have probably 100+ frames. I’m at 10 frames and my user hasn’t even set up their account yet. How many frames do y’all have on your apps?


I hope my question makes sense!

That depends on how you want to show it.


If you’re going to show them in prototype, then you probably only need 1-2 wireframes per page (if you’re good at prototyping). If not, you’ll need more as you would probably need to make a trick on it using smart animate.


If you’re going to show them by wireframe, then you have to show all of them, at least 1 for each possibility. And you have to create sets of wireframe for each user story/flow.


E.g.



  1. User register using lazy registration.

  2. User manually inputs registration

    – User manually inputs but forgotten some fields.

    – User input the wrong captcha


and so on.

Thank you! That makes sense. I was mainly wondering if I was missing some super obvious feature or something that would make it so that your file doesn’t sprawl across a million miles with lots of frames, but I guess even if that’s the case it is what it is and it’s not so bad.

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