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rbarvapalli
January 23, 2021

Create one prototype across the pages in a file

  • January 23, 2021
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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

Peter_Taylor-Brown
January 14, 2022

Same. I just finished moving my massive design file over from Sketch + Invision combo to Figma only to find out that comprehensive prototypes across “Pages” are not possible.

Figma please prioritize this! If you are designing an entire product, this is a must-have imho.

Andy_Cheung
January 20, 2022

THIS! Along with bringing back numbered comments.

Teri_Gosse
January 20, 2022

+1
At the very least, it would be so helpful if we could open links in the same tab.

Miles_Ceralde
February 2, 2022

This is extra broken. Me and my senior designer are now contemplating putting our entire design flow into a single page so that we can optimize around this problem. Figma is by far the best tool out there for collaborative UI design, but this one is a major head-scratcher…

Rebecca5
February 3, 2022

Upvoting this again!

Heather_Fischer1
February 3, 2022

Yeah, we’re looking at turning our “final” pages into components and then using them as an instance on another page / file specifically for prototypes - that way if we make a change to the design it flows through to our prototype. We haven’t put this into practice yet (probably next week), so there may be some downsides… Another benefit is that we won’t have Dev and Execs in our working files. 🙂

Miles_Ceralde
February 3, 2022

Yeah, we’re looking at turning our “final” pages into components and then using them as an instance on another page / file specifically for prototypes - that way if we make a change to the design it flows through to our prototype. We haven’t put this into practice yet (probably next week), so there may be some downsides… Another benefit is that we won’t have Dev and Execs in our working files. 🙂

@Heather_Fischer1 —Yep, that’s a possible workaround we considered also, but ultimately decided to go with the single-page model—we have a pretty interconnected B2B app in which a lot of the flows involve taking users to contexts that jump main-nav verticals, so splitting the pages out into components is would mean a lot of duplication, especially when we reuse overlays across pages.

I want to take full advantage of the interaction design capability of Figma to make sure that what I’m designing is sound across the flows—what I’m hoping for is that Figma will eventually implement pointing a prototype interaction to an element in a different page inside the same document. We’ll see, though.

Darrin_Snider
February 3, 2022

LOVE this feature in Sketch. Please implement something similar, or dare I say, better!!?

Chris_M
February 4, 2022

Please @anon21722796 add this feature! Its a major limitation of Figma as noted by everyone else in this thread. The work arounds posted are fine but really don’t work for presentations or user testing of a large prototype. You’ve asked us to pay to get access to more Pages, fine, but at least now that we have paid, please let us link between them in prototype mode!

Pavel_Nedobity
February 6, 2022

+1, this is a very important feature that is missing. Please @anon21722796 up it a bit in the backlog. Thx :).