Running into this behaviour over and over and over…arrow keys to go back and forth because that’s the most natural way to navigate such a document for a client.
Currently we MANUALLY add both arrow key → ← interactions on EVERY frame because the Flow starting point comes back every time anyway…@Figma_Support have a look at this silly thing!
Adding some related posts below:
Hello,
I have created a presentation with animations. I don’t want to have a flow for the reading mode, because I want to use the keyboard arrows. When I deactivate the flow, it works, but the flow reactivates itself after 1 hour on the document. As if I had not deactivated it. Do you have a solution for me? Thanks
The thing that drives me most crazy in Figma is how you can preview any screen in prototype mode IF there are no connections/wires but if there’s even one, you can’t preview a specific screen unless it’s somehow chained to the starting screen.
As I design, I try out LOTS of ideas. I duplicate screens and tweak things over and over on the same page. But if I want to check out how an interaction works, suddenly the tool is fighting me. I either have to copy EVERY new idea into a new page, or figu…
I feel your pain. I don’t think there is a solution. Someone else asked a similar question, there were some answers on how to work around this:
I saw a question about this but it hasn’t been answered. I have multiple frames on a page. I want them to present in a specific order when using the arrows in presentation mode, though that order doesn’t necessarily reflect the interaction order. (So clicking a button might jump two frames ahead in presentation mode.)
What is the logic behind the frame order? How can I manually control this?
This thread helped solve this for me:
Hi, I believe I’ve exhausted all the existing help articles on this.
I’m having a hard time with something that should be very basic. I have 25 or so screens, the ONLY interaction between them is that the user should be able to click and/or press the arrow key to navigate LINEARLY between them.
Sometimes it works (especially if I go slowly, it works every time). But sometimes it doesn’t, sometimes it inexplicably jumps through sections (pretty much only happens if I press the arrow keys quickl…
I saw similar topics were closed without any answers, so I’m opening it up again:
How can I organize the pagination within a prototype to use the arrow keys for navigation?
It doesn’t depend on the structure of the left layer panel. So if I use the arrow keys to navigate through the prototype it sometimes shows a wrong screen and I have no indication why that is happening or how I can influence the order.
Hello,
I have created a presentation with animations. I don’t want to have a flow for the reading mode, because I want to use the keyboard arrows. When I deactivate the flow, it works, but the flow reactivates itself after 1 hour on the document. As if I had not deactivated it. Do you have a solution for me? Thanks
I have a prototype with the simple default “on click go to this screen” behavior, but also want to have the left and right arrow keys cycle through the same linear flow. Coming from Powerpoint, Invision, and most other prototyping tools, I was expecting this to work right out of the box… But instead the order seems really strange.
I tried to reorder the frames in the left panel, but that didn’t do anything. I see that I can manually add the key press to go to the linked screen, but even with 10…
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