Decades ago when prototyping interfaces I would just use HTML prototypes, which made tooltips super easy to prototype.Â
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Decades later with Figma - which is an excellent design and prototyping tool don’t get me wrong - adding tooltips to one’s prototype, is incredibly painstaking.Â
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It would be so much easier if Figma just added a field for each layer called “tooltip”, which, when hovered over in prototype mode, would display the tooltip after a number of milliseconds (which could be customized as a bonus feature).Â
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This would make Figma prototypes tooltip-friendly in such an easy way.Â
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And from a designer-developer handoff perspective, it would be great if Figma prototypes had a toggle to enable text selection in the prototype. That way the developer would just run the prototype, get the tooltip in context, and copy its text.Â
