LAUNCHED: Password Protect Prototypes for User Research

Agreed, privacy is key for many designers and clients. The only way to make it work right now is by whitelisting specific users but that can get tricky and time consuming.

I’ve used the Crypto plugin to make this happen but then again, it looks that you are yet sending your designs to another platform (which may incur into legal issues sometimes).

I hope this feature gets enough priority soon, big clients are all about keeping their assets safe.

Yes please! It’s such a basic feature it surprised me Figma doesn’t have it.

This is great would love to see password protection options for our prototypes.

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I’ve always used psw with Marvel prototypes

Agreed. This is super simple yet powerful

That’s a deal breaker for our organisation (50+ designers). We could argue about the actual effectiveness of password protected links but that’s not how security departments in large orgs think…

Damn. Was about to ask the exact same question. This is a real issue working with clients who require privacy but don’t want to (and shouldn’t need to) set up figma accounts for all stakeholders, etc, who need to view a working prototype.

Another flaw with the Crypto plugin is that it doesn’t contain any of the prototype links, just flat designs, which isn’t ideal at all. You also can’t house the design in a device (ie an iPhone) which although doesn’t sound like a big deal, it makes a difference for some clients to be able to see it presented in a visual way that they can understand/relate to and be able to internally present the work to other stakeholders if need be.

If this isn’t something that is on the radar I’d really want to see invision integration added as invision has a super easy way of adding a password layer to prototypes. Not ideal at all to have to go back to using multiple tools (sketch + invison etc) but it really is a problem for large agencies/organisations to not be able to password protect work.

It wouldn’t affect the existing security settings, right?

You could still make the entire prototype accessible for people invited to the file, or make it accessible for anyone with the link.

Password protection would be a nice in-between option.

I’m favour of password protected prototypes, the fact that we don’t have them it’s a deal breaker

Same problem here. I work for a large company and we cant make public links because privacy restrictions. We have to get clients emails and send the invites. That’s ok somentimes, but also we have another kind of projects in which we have to drop the link and leave. A password access for that ones would be the best solution.