LAUNCHED: Password Protect Prototypes for User Research

Agreed, privacy is key for many designers and clients. The only way to make it work right now is by whitelisting specific users but that can get tricky and time consuming.

I’ve used the Crypto plugin to make this happen but then again, it looks that you are yet sending your designs to another platform (which may incur into legal issues sometimes).

I hope this feature gets enough priority soon, big clients are all about keeping their assets safe.

Yes please! It’s such a basic feature it surprised me Figma doesn’t have it.

This is great would love to see password protection options for our prototypes.

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I’ve always used psw with Marvel prototypes

Agreed. This is super simple yet powerful

That’s a deal breaker for our organisation (50+ designers). We could argue about the actual effectiveness of password protected links but that’s not how security departments in large orgs think…

Damn. Was about to ask the exact same question. This is a real issue working with clients who require privacy but don’t want to (and shouldn’t need to) set up figma accounts for all stakeholders, etc, who need to view a working prototype.

Another flaw with the Crypto plugin is that it doesn’t contain any of the prototype links, just flat designs, which isn’t ideal at all. You also can’t house the design in a device (ie an iPhone) which although doesn’t sound like a big deal, it makes a difference for some clients to be able to see it presented in a visual way that they can understand/relate to and be able to internally present the work to other stakeholders if need be.

If this isn’t something that is on the radar I’d really want to see invision integration added as invision has a super easy way of adding a password layer to prototypes. Not ideal at all to have to go back to using multiple tools (sketch + invison etc) but it really is a problem for large agencies/organisations to not be able to password protect work.

It wouldn’t affect the existing security settings, right?

You could still make the entire prototype accessible for people invited to the file, or make it accessible for anyone with the link.

Password protection would be a nice in-between option.

I’m favour of password protected prototypes, the fact that we don’t have them it’s a deal breaker

Same problem here. I work for a large company and we cant make public links because privacy restrictions. We have to get clients emails and send the invites. That’s ok somentimes, but also we have another kind of projects in which we have to drop the link and leave. A password access for that ones would be the best solution.

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We need this asap with out client work

Yes please, I dont want to export projects into InVision just so we can password protect and its so clunky when showing to clients, please just let us password protect a prototype. It’s one of my major pain points at the moment.

Does anyone know if they offer this on Enterprise accounts as a custom Feature? We also need the password protection feature! A major pain point at the moment.

Would love to have this feature as well with an enterprise account. Major pain point as well on our end!

Sadly not yet available with an enterprise account. There is a plugin ‘crypto’ that offers this option. But since I don’t have a view on the google cloud where the (encrypted) designs are stored it’s not an option for me personally to use.

Maybe it could help !

Yes, please. This is something that InVision Enterprise offers, but Figma does not.

We are not able to use plugin integration for this due to contract and confidential term conflicts.

Anyone found solution to this? It’s ridiculous that this basic feature hasn’t’t been implemented.

Yes please implement this. The Crypto plugin is not secure so if Figma could build this as a native feature that would be great.

Please implement this functionality. It is a major limitation in moving from InVision to Figma, and should be relatively easy to implement.

🙏🏽 Please implement, such a useful feature.

Password protected prototypes is a must have for us to move forward. Please implement.

Same here. After Years we’re now on the way to fully shift our design-processes to figma. But the migration-process is on hold right now for risky projects because of our companies security policy. 😐 So I would say password protection for a prototype is a killerfeature.

This was a pretty hard lesson for me and is sad in my option for such a well thought tool like figma.

Hi everyone!

I’m happy to share that we’ve (finally, I know) shipped password-protected links. If you’re on a Professional, Organization, or Enterprise plan, you’ll be able to set a password on your Figma file, prototype, and FigJam file. You can read more about the feature in the help center.

We appreciate all your feedback on this feature and in general – I hope you find password protected links useful!

Ben, Figma PM

The auto-gen passwords are really long, which makes it difficult to test with users. is there any way to simplify these for a short period of time such as testing?