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Dave2
April 15, 2021

Variable cursor in prototypes

  • April 15, 2021
  • 71 replies
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Currently, in prototype the cursor appears to be either ‘pointer’ (for everything) or ‘hand’ (if a click interaction set up on an element). I would like to be able to change this to a text cursor, when hovering over an input field in my proto. Affordance is a very important part of UI so surprised theres no way to do this? Of course can hack it by adding an image of a cursor, but then you end up having that plus the actual cursor on screen & it makes things worse. Should be an easy feature to add and would be very much appreciated!

71 replies

Phil_Larsen
Active Member
May 13, 2021

This would be huge. I have been working on projects that rely on cursor changes on hover.

h.rude
July 12, 2021

Agree. It feels like most prototyping tools are optimized for mobile where no hover effect exists - but there are still a lot of desktop applications in the world that rely on hover + cursor change. This would be really huge I even would like to have a fully customizable cursor.

Schiller_Abendzeit
July 13, 2021

Is it possible to change the cursor entirely and apply color blending effects? For example: Turing the cursor into a circle which wherever it hovers above has the complementary colors shown.

Phil_Larsen
Active Member
July 23, 2021

Not currently, but these types of enhancements are what we’re talking about!

Schiller_Abendzeit
July 23, 2021

Yes. I was just wondering if there’s a way to go around this. Hopefully they’ll consider adding this very soon.

Muckaseckel
August 4, 2021

+1 please. Thanks.

ROB002
New Participant
September 2, 2021

This will definitely be a great addition and will allow clickable areas to be easier to discover.

Vitaliy1
New Participant
September 20, 2021

+1
it’s definitely very useful and more than useful for desktop software prototyping

Looking forward to this feature

la_Climent
September 30, 2021

Would be fantastic! 😍

SohrabNiroo
New Participant
October 5, 2021

HUge need, Web design is so underrated in Figma