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Roberto
Apr 16, 2021 8:13 AM UTC

Display scroll bar in prototype preview mode

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.

124 replies

Nick_Man
Nov 6, 2024 5:10 PM UTC

Keeping this alive - it’s a must

Mabelzanecali
Nov 7, 2024 12:36 PM UTC

Thanks it very helpful

Mabelzanecali
Nov 7, 2024 6:14 PM UTC

Thanks it very helpful .

brent_canfield
Nov 13, 2024 10:43 PM UTC

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
Nov 20, 2024 10:05 PM UTC

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

Christian_Clausen
Dec 18, 2024 10:43 AM UTC

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

NumberOneMo
New Member
Mar 22, 2025 10:04 PM UTC

Definitely require visible scrollbars for prototyping.

Meredith_Kench
New Participant
Apr 30, 2025 2:00 PM UTC

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 7:49 AM UTC

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 7:37 PM UTC

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?