How to Record Figma
Step-by-step guide to recording Figma. Best resolution, capture settings, and tips for design handoffs, prototype demos, and tutorial videos.
When you’d need to record Figma
Design handoff to engineers
Walk your engineering team through spacing, component states, and interaction patterns faster than writing a 40-page spec.
Client review and feedback
Record a prototype walkthrough and send it instead of scheduling another synchronous meeting. Clients can watch and comment on their own time.
Design tutorials and courses
Show your design process for YouTube, internal onboarding, or paid courses. Figma recordings capture the full creative workflow.
Bug reports on prototypes
Capture exactly what broke in a prototype interaction, with the URL and browser state visible for developers to reproduce.
Recommended settings
Things to know
- •Runs in browser — close other tabs to prevent frame drops on large files
- •Multiplayer cursors are visible by default — disable in View > Multiplayer Cursors
- •Browser zoom affects Figma's layout — always keep at 100%
- •Prototype mode runs in a separate window — capture that window specifically for prototype recordings
Step-by-step
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In Screenify Studio, select Window Capture and pick the Figma window.
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Open your Figma file and navigate to the frame you want to start from. Collapse any panels you won't reference during the recording.
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If you're narrating, enable your mic and do a quick 5-second test recording. Figma sessions tend to be quiet, which makes background noise (AC, keyboard clicks) more noticeable.
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Hit record. Use Cmd+\ in Figma to toggle the UI on and off when you want to show the design without surrounding panels.
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Move deliberately. Figma's canvas is infinite — fast panning looks disorienting on video. Zoom into a section, pause, explain it, then zoom out and move to the next section.
For prototype recordings
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Enter prototype mode by clicking the Play button in the top right corner of Figma.
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In Screenify, switch to Custom Area capture and drag to fit the prototype preview window — this skips the Figma browser chrome around it.
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Switch to 60fps in Screenify settings — prototype transitions and micro-interactions look choppy at 30fps.
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Click through the flow at a human pace. Rushing through screens makes the recording useless for review. Pause 1-2 seconds on each screen.
Pro tips
Use AI Auto-Zoom on clicks. When you click on small UI elements like color pickers, spacing inputs, or layer names, Auto-Zoom detects the click and smoothly zooms in. This solves the #1 problem with Figma recordings: viewers can't see what you're clicking on in that dense toolbar.
Turn on cursor highlighting. Figma's default cursor is small and white. On a light design, it disappears entirely. Screenify's cursor highlight adds a visible ring around your cursor so viewers can always track your mouse.
Add AI Captions for async reviews. If you're sending a design walkthrough to a client in a different timezone, add captions with one click. They might watch on mute during a meeting. Word-level sync in 50+ languages if your client isn't English-speaking.
Skip the intro. Nobody watching a Figma recording wants 30 seconds of 'hey guys, so today we're going to...' — start at the design. Trim the beginning in Screenify's timeline editor after recording.
Common mistakes
Recording the entire screen instead of just the Figma window. This shows your desktop, dock, notification badges, personal bookmarks, and whatever tabs you have open.
Using 1080p on a design with small text. Figma UIs have tiny property values, layer names, and spacing indicators. At 1080p after compression, viewers pause and squint — or just stop watching.
Forgetting to hide multiplayer cursors. Other team members' cursors fly around your recording if multiplayer cursors are enabled. Go to View > Multiplayer Cursors > Off before recording.
Panning too fast across the canvas. The recording becomes a motion blur of layers and frames. Zoom in, explain the section, zoom out, navigate to the next section. Never fast-pan.
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