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Harald_Skogland
Harald_Skogland
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August 31, 2023

Preview window

  • August 31, 2023
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The new preview window in Figma client is great!
It would be nice if this could be moved freely outside the window size of the Figma client. This way it would not obstruct the Figma UI and can be moved to a secondary display.

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    rebecca_w
    October 20, 2023

    +1
    Coming from Adobe XD this is the feature I miss most. Seems like the current Preview mode has mainly been created with having designs for mobile devices in mind, but for desktop screens it does not make sense at all.

      offcolor
      offcolor
      New Member
      October 31, 2023

      Does anyone know of a plugin for this?

      Harald_Skogland
      Harald_SkoglandAuthor
      Active Member
      November 20, 2023

      Also for this, it would be nice if the new tokens variable panel could in a similar way be moved outside of the client app window. If working on a single very large screen this won’t be an issue, but for anyone on a medium sized screen or on multiple display setup, most of Figma workspace becomes unusable once tokens panel is open because it takes up so much space.

        Vick_Guberska-Sleiman
        Vick_Guberska-Sleiman
        March 20, 2024

        Same. Just switched from XD to Figma and I find the preview prototype option quite underwhelming here. I am used to working on my prototype on my laptop screen and having the preview window always open on my separate display so I can check how the designs look at all times. This is completely impossible in Figma right now…

          Sven_Zett
          Sven_Zett
          New Member
          August 2, 2024

          Moving the preview on another screen is not just a wish, this is a mandatory feature (and known from XD). Having it always opened on the same screen is wasting far to much space. Why developing silly stuff like the new floating panels? They are nice but useless, they don´t improve any single thing of Figma

            Bibash_Khadka
            Bibash_Khadka
            October 22, 2024

            It’s really frustrating that you can’t see a live preview of your artboards like in Adobe XD. We can’t switch between artboard screens as easily as in XD. I think XD has the advantage here. Figma needs to bring this feature to life soon.

            Bibash_Khadka
            Bibash_Khadka
            November 6, 2024

            I think, for thoes who is still searching for seperate preview window on second screen, Try opening https://www.figma.com/mirror and have a play around, it works for me.

              Harald_Skogland
              Harald_SkoglandAuthor
              Active Member
              November 6, 2024

              That’s a good alternative. Thanks for sharing.

              Hal_Lee
              Hal_Lee
              New Member
              September 8, 2025

              I did it with some magic.

              https://x.com/hal_lee_at_x/status/1965065330419765353
               

               

                SUX
                SUX
                New Member
                October 8, 2025

                A parte de la funcionalidad de la vista previa, otra funcionalidad que extraño de Adobe XD es que la opción de presentar pantallas (link para compartir) me permitía ver todas las pantallas en grillas, esto me ayudaba a poder buscar y mostrar la pantalla que me pedían mostrar en ese momento, con figma tengo que recorrer por todas las pantallas hasta llegar a ella. Soy nueva usando Figma, si alguien sabe si se puede ver en grillas las pantallas al presentar se lo agradecería mucho 

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