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Roberto
April 16, 2021

Display scroll bar in prototype preview mode

  • April 16, 2021
  • 123 replies
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There’s no visible scrollbar in Figma prototyping mode. Yesterday we’re having user testings and once again this same topic popped out. Some of the users didn’t thought that they could scroll prototype because scrollbar wasn’t visible. One of the user was using laptop’s touchpad and he wasn’t able to scroll with only using touchpad. Guiding user how to use prototype during test can harm testing situations. Atleast it’s sure that if user thought that he can’t scroll it leads to biased feedback about product.

If there’s some reason not to have scrollbar it could be atleast optional feature that designer could turn visible scrollbar on from options.

It’s not only who has came across with this weakness in Figma. Here’s old Spectrum thread about same topic but Figma hasn’t done anything for this yet and I hope this get more attention here.

123 replies

Nick_Man
November 6, 2024

Keeping this alive - it’s a must

Mabelzanecali
November 7, 2024

Thanks it very helpful

Mabelzanecali
November 7, 2024

Thanks it very helpful .

brent_canfield
November 13, 2024

i am also running into this issue during usability tests this week- keeping this thread alive - its amazing how many windows users are looking for the browser scroll bar so the can click on it and drag it up and down… i didn’t even know people still tried to use scroll bars like this in recent decades - but they do for sure as i am learning

Elliott_Andrew
New Participant
November 20, 2024

Almost 2025 and still running into this issue when user testing prototypes Figma!!

Christian_Clausen
December 18, 2024

I cannot believe there’s still no solution for that issue …

NumberOneMo
New Member
March 22, 2025

Definitely require visible scrollbars for prototyping.

Meredith_Kench
New Participant
April 30, 2025

This is still an ongoing issue - please display a scrollbar in the prototype when scrolling, or give an option to display one when setting up the overflow to scroll.

Wouter Breek
New Member
May 15, 2025

Same here. Keeping the thread alive. Shouldn't be such tough issue to crack and improve user testing heaps!

KBebo
New Member
May 19, 2025

I’m new here but are you telling me there is no way to scroll text up and down with a little bar? HOW with all the insane power and potential of figma is this extremely simple and necessary tool not available?