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Shannon
Shannon
April 30, 2021

LAUNCHED: Password Protect Prototypes for User Research

  • April 30, 2021
  • 27 replies
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We love using Figma for user testing, however it poses privacy risks. In the past, I once observed someone logging back into the prototype and taking screenshots with their phone after the test ended.

  • We use Lookback and prepare a Figma prototype link to share ahead of time for each participant so we’re not scrambling beforehand.
  • We prefer this so that we don’t force our participants to sign up for a Figma account, which would seem unnecessary and would put people off.
  • I found a plugin called Crypto, but it only creates one password that can’t be changed, even when deleted and re-adding to the prototype.

We’d love to have some sort of password option we could change between participants for the public link.

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    Jeff_Hokit
    Jeff_Hokit
    February 24, 2022

    🙏🏽 Please implement, such a useful feature.

    Vince_Heilman
    Vince_Heilman
    February 24, 2022

    Password protected prototypes is a must have for us to move forward. Please implement.

      Soren_Runge
      Soren_Runge
      New Member
      March 15, 2022

      Same here. After Years we’re now on the way to fully shift our design-processes to figma. But the migration-process is on hold right now for risky projects because of our companies security policy. 😐 So I would say password protection for a prototype is a killerfeature.

      This was a pretty hard lesson for me and is sad in my option for such a well thought tool like figma.

      Ben_Stern
      Figmate
      Ben_Stern
      Figmate
      May 10, 2022

      Hi everyone!

      I’m happy to share that we’ve (finally, I know) shipped password-protected links. If you’re on a Professional, Organization, or Enterprise plan, you’ll be able to set a password on your Figma file, prototype, and FigJam file. You can read more about the feature in the help center.

      We appreciate all your feedback on this feature and in general – I hope you find password protected links useful!

      Ben, Figma PM

        Peter_George
        August 3, 2023

        The auto-gen passwords are really long, which makes it difficult to test with users. is there any way to simplify these for a short period of time such as testing?

        mariela.berrocal
        February 16, 2024

        @Ben_Stern had a question about the passwords. It doesn’t seem possible to have a different password for different flows and I’m trying to figure out if that’ll cause me any problems.

        For context, I have a file that has multiple prototype flows, each in its own unique page within the file. And each prototype has a unique link but they all share the same password. We need only specific people to access each prototype (i.e., a single person should not be accessing all prototypes).

        Is there any risk of someone accessing a different Flow in a different page within the same file through their prototype link? Because we have them on different pages, the sidebar just shows the one flow, so I’m assuming no, but wanted to check. Trying to decide if there’s any reason why I would want to create a separate file for each prototype so that they can all have a different passwords.

        Gayani_S
        Figmate
        Gayani_S
        Community Support
        February 19, 2024

        Hey @mariela.berrocal, unfortunately this is not possible at the moment. Community members have requested something similar, feel free to vote here for this feature request: Give unique access to specific pages.

        You’re correct the only workaround for this is creating separate files and setting a password for the prototype. Thanks for sharing your feedback with us I’ll share this internally with the teams for consideration.

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