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James_Brooks
James_Brooks
June 14, 2021

Responsive behavior in Presentation Mode?

  • June 14, 2021
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Hi, new to Figma, but not new to UX design. I’m very competent with Sketch, JustinMind, Illustrator/Photoshop, and Axure and now my company is trying out Figma.

The question I have is about Presentation Mode.

I see all these great tutorials and functionality around responsiveness when INSIDE the Figma editor. Constrain the button to the parent frame for a variety of responsive behaviors… that’s cool.

But when I launch Presentation Mode I’m only given choices like “Shrink to fit frame” and “Fill to fit” etc.

I need to be able to make some UI that responds like HTML/CSS in Preview Mode.

Like, a responsive data grid where some cells shrink as the window gets less wide and some do not and eventually resulting in a horizontal scrollbar when the grid can get no smaller.

You know, web page style.

I guess I’m confused about why the “drag and watch the objects respond” behavior seems to be limited to only the editor view.

Am I missing something??? I can’t find any info about this. All the search results are about responsiveness in the Editor and none are about the Presentation Mode, at least none that I have found so far.

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    Neil_Haskins
    Neil_Haskins
    January 15, 2024

    As a developer, I can’t tell what my visual design team wants, because I can’t see what’s happening at different screen sizes. If this was for print it wouldn’t be an issue, but how is this supposed to be viable for web?

    joey_migs
    joey_migs
    January 19, 2024

    Wow. I’m new to Figma from other tools and was excited to dig into Figma’s Auto Layout because of how it allows for responsive behavior in layouts. Finding out that this dynamic behavior only exists within the editor and can only be used to produce static previews/presentations is extremely disappointing.

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