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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

Steven7
February 9, 2022

Yeah I agree. Don’t get me wrong Design System wise and the component functionality with auto layout etc is great but if Figma want to be the single tool for all, they really need to invest time and effort in creating a Prototyping deliverable, that competes with HiFi prototyping tools like ProtoPie.io and Proto.io. The Figma prototyping delivery I’m sure is great for creatives showcasing a website redesign in a pitch but when it comes to functional usable prototypes to test with real users it lacks completely!

Christian_Brandt
February 17, 2022

Yes! Yes! Yes! Please give us this.

Kasia_O
February 24, 2022

Please make it happen!
Like other people in this thread - I really really need this for usability testing. I don’t want to have to ask test participants “please be sure you have a mouse with scroll wheel connected for the test session” - it’s embarassing and lack of scrollbar falsifies test results to some degree, not to mention participants frustration… 😕

Sayo_Bittencourt
March 7, 2022

Is this for real not implemented yet? We need this urgently

Lisa-Marie_Liu
March 9, 2022

+2, We also need this!

Shelby1
March 16, 2022

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

Debbie_Gray
March 29, 2022

+1, This would be so helpful!

Jenni_Merrifield
New Member
April 11, 2022

+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!

Chris_Beck
April 11, 2022

+1 from me… Please add scroll bars

Charlesnz
April 18, 2022

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