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rbarvapalli
January 23, 2021

Create one prototype across the pages in a file

  • January 23, 2021
  • 396 replies
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I would love to be able to create one prototype across the pages in a file that resembles an actual website. This would be ideal for bigger projects and would be easier to maintain as well. We can connect the component libraries across all the pages anyways. A way to connect the prototype would be great in my opinion and that will give Figma a big leg up on other platforms.

What do you guys think?

396 replies

Patrick_Meehan1
August 26, 2022

giphy-1

Dan49
September 14, 2022

I am new to figma and just assumed that this would be possible. Its crazy it isn’t and unacceptable people have been asking for it for so long

Lou4
September 15, 2022

I’m not a designer, but a Frontend dev. Doing my poor designing stuff quickly felt the need of navigating from one page to another, since maintaining pages in pages INSTEAD OF FRAMES is actually logic. Atomic design is the first thing to tell: segment as much as possible turn the whole idea in a bunch of atoms. Then mix them as you please.
Figma’s team are missing a big point and forcin the community to do bad practices in design, quite disapointing. after opening this topic now 1,5 years ago

Michael_Goldstein
September 19, 2022

@Figma_Support can you please at least update us on this? This is a crucial feature that is missing from Figma that is hamstringing a lot of us. It’s been over a year and a half and has been like a year since the last update. How have you not implemented this yet? How have you just ignored this for this long without even letting us know what’s happening?

We don’t need sleep. We need answers.

Creesp
September 21, 2022

Bumping this thread…

Israel_Marques
September 22, 2022

OMG, this can’t be real @Figma_Team @Figma_Support
Can you give us at least a update about it?

jules_varnier
September 27, 2022

Same problems here. It’s extremely frustrating. You can’t created complexe component with overlay call and having it use across the pages. I just finish by moving the hall component to the main page just to be able to use it in a prototype.

Same with navigation btwn pages, i have to get everything in the same page. But when you work on a 1O0 screen pages it’s just becoming a job to keep it organise and clean. You finishing with component around pages duplicate everywhere. Just to be able to make the prototype.

I really hope you will take this tread in consideration. At least some news about it should be the minimum, personally more the time past and more im thinking moving to a tools who allow me to have a nice and clean files

Michael_Lewis
October 4, 2022

lol…

This forum won’t let me only send lol, so I have to add a sentence here.

Visakan_Kanagarajan
October 6, 2022

Workaround I use: Create a public link of page 1. From page 2, use ‘open link’ and add the URL of the page 1 to link to.

May help some.

Mikkel_Kolbak
October 6, 2022

The fix to this is stupid - but very simple:

Goal: Link Frame A on Page 1 to Frame B on Page 2

  1. Move Frame A to Page 2
  2. Create the link between Frame A and Frame B
  3. Move Frame A to Page 1

Voila! The link should persist.

As I said… Stupid. But hey if it works…