Display scroll bar in prototype preview mode

WE NEED THIS! Im looking into other software to prototype due to this. It has completely skewed user testing.

+1, This would be so helpful!

+1 from me.

I was dismayed to find out this has been an issue for such a long time. Please provide a way to show live toolbars in scrolling panels!

+1 from me… Please add scroll bars

+1 this is a serious problem when user testing on desktop with users on varied devices/OS

+1 to this. Who in Figma team is resisting this change? What more proof do they need that this is in demand?

+1 totally need this

+1,000,000,000 need this

+1 on this one. While us Mac users are privileged with multitouch trackpads that enable scrolling behavior (two-finger gesture), many Windows laptops don’t have that. I was just talking to a client yesterday, after I’d built a scrolling prototype and he wasn’t able to scroll. 😒

But I echo many of the others here. It’s probably much more important in user research too. There are just a lot of computer users out there who are unaware of scroll wheels on mice or how to scroll with their trackpads. This one is pretty important.

Desperately needed here, too. I’ve created a fake scroll bar component but it’s really not a great solution.

Adding to this request, not having a working scrollbar for prototype testing is causing failures. Making a fake component isn’t idea.

Overflow scrolling in prototypes can be improved. Frames with this setting allow scrolling with the mouse wheel or by drag and drop. However, there’s no visual indication that an area of the screen is scrollable. Add a working scrollbar in prototypes with overflow scrolling on. This will help in user testing designs where scrolling is an important part of the design.

Jeez— I’m actually astonished that this isn’t a thing. I was searching to see what I was missing when making a preview for a client and this was the first hit. Will this push me back to XD? Maybe. What a pain.

+1 to this, scrolling was not at all intuitive during usability testing.

+1. This is an extremely important feature for people who want to show their Figma prototypes to clients.

I constantly do usability testing with prototypes in Figma, it’s really powerful but the only thing that creates a lot of inconvenience during the sessions is the lack of scroll bars. 99% of the time I test with Windows users with laptops which usually are not the latest models. The trackpads on those laptops are crap. It supports only clicks, no gestures like on Mac. And it is a big pain when a user can not scroll the prototype, especially when there are multiple scrollable areas. It is a real pain. I tried to make a fake scrollbars, but in most cases it doesn’t work as well. Figma please consider adding this as an option for scrollable frames.

Agreed with everyone here. I’m in the middle of a round of user testing and the lack of scroll bar on the prototype is a huge issue, especially for older users and PC laptop users. They are literally clicking and dragging to move the page and have no visual feedback of where they are on the page.

We usually prototype in other software, and trying Figma prototyping this time. But we will have to stop using Figma to prototype if this issue is not resolved; it makes the session so difficult.

Bump. This feature would be ideal for our user testing sessions!

+1 Please this is needed URGENTLY!

It’s beyond me how BASIC interactive elements like scrollbars, radio buttons etc were not part of the very first release.

+1! necessary!

+1 deff a required feature

This is a must! +1

Any update on this? (+1). Many users get confused about a missing scrollbar while user testing. So our (and many others too) results become less qualitative.

I agree. This is at least one point where Sketch is ahead …