Problem: nowhere for independent ideation
As a file owner, it would be ideal to have the option to a hide or make a page private from other Users so that you can still work with the styles in the same file. I find that I want to explore different design concepts in an area that no other team mates can see.
Does anyone else experience this? Is anyone using a plugin or workaround to help solve this?
I have the same problem. Especially if you’re not ready to share a file with a colleague. I could only create a page and put it in the last place, finally named “🪦”. 🤣
Thanks for sharing @YingMing !!!
This would be so helpful! I end up creating dupe files, one for WIP and one to share with developers and have to copy things back and forth. It gets very confusing.
@figma correct me if I’m wrong but this is fixed with the new Drafts area coming April 21!! Woohooo!!
Right!? So much double handling. I think they’re introducing something for this soon in Drafts area. Such good news !!
Both working in-house and contract, it would be very useful if pages had a functionality to show/hide. Pages being worked on shouldn’t be shown outside of ‘edit’ access until designs are ready for review or signed off.
People with ‘view only’ access can see all of the work in the project. With deadlines being tight in my experience, design can sometimes not be given the time it needs to work through the process properly. When management teams or clients can view ‘work in progress’, they can initiate building the UI without design completing and achieving sign off. Causing issues with the final outcome and eventually leading to dev/design rework.
Does anyone else experience this? Is anyone using a plugin or workaround to help solve this? Would anyone else find this helpful?
Allow a project owner to set visibility for each pages of a figma file.
A page could “Viewable by”:
Everyone
Editors only
Project Owner only
Because as soon as a file is shared with the client for feedback, there are always these strange moments when you are in a designing/working phase, and you see the client log in onto the file. This can make designer not feel at ease to work as they should. A bit like when your know you have a camera on in a meeting. By fear of being watched by the client, or even that the client feels that they work too fast, and the task was actually “too easy for what they were charged”
open to discussion
Yes please! This would be so helpful. I have no idea, how all these fellow designers manage to share certain areas of a project with developers and clients while hiding unfinished work. Right now I have all my pages marked with emojis but this always requires explanation.
The ability to make certain pages public and keep others private would be so handy! Please @figma, take this into consideration.
My team is looking to use Figma to capture client feedback instead of manually exporting files to upload into InVision. Our issue is that we would like to only share certain pages within a project with the client, so they can only review finished screens and not see work in progress.
Our only solution to do this would be to duplicate the project with just the pages for client and share this instead of the working project, but this creates a double up and more effort translating feedback back to the working project.
Any help or insights would be greatly appreciated 😀
Allow to share in view only one page of a file instead of all pages
Yes, this would be so helpful!
Sadly, I don’t have any answers just more criticisms. Figma is awesome in general, but still fails when it comes to sharing comps with clients. I have varied sized artboards – mobile and desktop.
The share link:
The share link sends the client to the entire project, and they have no idea how to navigate around Figma because they don’t use it everyday. It’s awful for client presentation.
The prototype or the presentation link:
This view is too unintuitive for the client to realize there’s a vanishing pager at the bottom to click through the artboards. Also, I have variations, and there’s no setting on screen to indicate the artboard name in this view.
Sorry, but Sketch really gets things right in this department.
1. Describe the problem your experiencing and how your idea helps solve this
Viewers of my project can literally see everything and also comment on anything they want. Having the ability to toggle visibility for viewers on pages would give me the opportunity to have a workspace where I can do my sketching and drafts without having a client or manager interfere.
2. Add as much context as possible (screenshots, Figma files, mockups, etc.)
I am currently working on a project where one of the managers is constantly giving feedback on stuff that I haven’t even finished yet. I know I could tell him that he should wait for my approval to give a round of feedback, but sometimes managers are just too stubborn and check up on designs in between tasks or when bored… This would also make the main project file be sharable with a customer without them seeing any drafts or unfinished business.
3. Ask questions to bring the community into the conversation
Would the only option be to not share Figma with managers and clients and just keep using Zeplin on the side?
Ah thanks! I made sure to give that post a vote 👍🏼
I don’t actually think this has been covered yet.
I thought it was covered with the ‘Teams’ update but I still want an area in a shared file that is just to myself.
Regardless of if it’s in drafts or a team - I don’t think you can show and hide pages or manage permissions amongst pages yet
Something I really need and I think others do too
Yes!
Needs not met yet
Comments on stuff unfinished is so frustrating
Hopefully this feature gets some momentum
The prototype link is the closest thing but not quite there to use effectively for client reviews. As Scott mentioned, there’s no way to easily show variations of a screen for client review. Coming from using InVision, they got a few things right, i.e. share specific screens, prototype some but not require prototyping connections between all and a view all screens as thumbnails view to help navigate all designs with the ability to turn off certain features so that the same file can be used for usability testing. I feel like Figma can get there with a few tweaks and additions.
It is annoying to copy boards to a different file. Specially you loose components and comments.
I use a little trick adding pages named to look like separators. While not actually hiding anything, it’s useful to share the files with non-designers who never found what’s hiding there 😉
It’s just a bunch of mdashes:
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Figma presents, such an incredible new way of working, but the one and just about only problem i’m having too… is sharing isolated frames or isolated flows with clients / team.
Essentially creating a mini-flow, or single frame within a page within a project and sharing it directly without the ability for the viewer to see anything else.
This would be super beneficial to resolve @anon21722796
Totally agree George - this is the one reason why we are still painstakingly exporting 50+ screens to InVision to share with clients/wider teams and receive feedback.
@anon21722796 Even the ability to share selected screens within the prototype viewer, with the ability to leave basic feedback through Figma’s commenting system would be a massive value add and time saver.
This is super helpful since there is stuff I’d like to share with stakeholders but there is stuff I’d like not to. Please make this happens.
My workflow is exactly the same like Lishay, this would help a lot.
Yes, this is a big problem when sharing parts of a big project. @anon21722796 any suggestion in the meanwhile?
+1 to this. I was just looking up how to do this only to realize this is not a feature.
