Create one prototype across the pages in a file

Managing main components and being able to link them to different pages is critical for my transition to Figma. Please add this feature! For me it would also be Ok to have a dedicated “Components” page so that cross-page-linking components are not spread over the whole project.

Usually this is not an issue for me, but now we’re trying to use Figma to house some of our onboarding documentation, and having the ability to add a prototyping link between pages is exactly what we need. Otherwise we’ll have to shove everything into one page and sacrifice ease of navigating the documentation.

I would love to be able to navigate across pages seamlessly. Not being able to navigate to separate pages severely restricts the types of projects I can use Figma for. Some of my projects in sketch have dozens of pages, broken into logical groups/task flows. Putting everything in one bucket doesn’t really jive with the organization methodology most designers have.

There is so much that could be done with this feature.
Yes, it would help organize larger project.
One nice thing would be, if you have something like dropdown menus, tooltips, global interactions, etc, those could be organized in separate pages, and then the main UX prototype page(s) could link to those interactions.

Honest question to the Figma team: what’s the point of supporting multiple pages if they can’t form a single prototype?
If the answer is “multiple pages let you create multiple prototypes”… I would say, that’s what separate FILES and shared LIBRARIES are for. Like all document-based software in the last 40 years, the unit of work in Figma is a file and all serious Figma projects need to be prototypes so they can useful for stakeholders, not to mention final users…

I didn’t check this by for hand when I checked out the possibilities of Figma. Such an oversight. I really thought this would be a thing. Invision also has this feature forever.

+1 for ability to link from one page to another page in prototypes.

It is possible to link from one page to another page, but the results are not ideal:

1. Create two pages - one named Home and one named About
2. Put a menu on both pages with text Home and About
3. Right-click on the Home page in Figma’s left side bar, and choose Copy link to page
4. Enter Prototype mode
5. On the Home page elect the Home menu text and add an interaction - On Click > Open Link, and paste the link you copied in Step 3.
6. Repeat steps 3 - 5 for the About page.
7. Play the Prototype
8. Click to share the Prototype and copy the link
9. Open a new private/incognito window and paste the prototype URL

You should now be able to click the Home and About links to navigate between pages. It does work, but the user experience is not great, as each link initially opens in a new tab and the interface changes.

Is there a better way to do this?

+1 Sketch has this for quite some time and I’ve used it daily…

You don’t even need a large project for it to be useful. A simple mobile app will have a tab bar. You want to control everything (including prototype links) from the tab bar component itself to centralize the logic and avoid link mistakes (which as far as I can see is very easy in Figma). You can of course have everything on the same page but then you have an even worse organizational problem without pages.

Yes, I would expect cross page links to be embeddable in the components. So your master navigation components always have the right links to exactly the right artboard and transition settings within a different page.