Canvas manual/Prototyping & present

Prototyping & present

Turn static frames into a clickable flow. Add interactions that jump from one frame to another, then play the whole thing full-screen.

Author interactions

The Interactions section of the inspector wires a layer to navigate somewhere on click.

Select the layer that should be the hotspot — a button, a card, an arrow — and open Interactions. Add a click → navigate link and choose the destination frame. Repeat to stitch a flow together: home → detail → confirmation, and so on. A hotspot can sit anywhere inside a frame; the nearest one to your click wins during playback.

Play it in present mode

Present mode plays one frame full-screen, following your links, with the editor chrome hidden.

Click ▶ Present at the top of the right panel (next to Share) to start playback. Once it’s running:

  • Click a hotspot to follow its link to the next frame.
  • / step through frames in order, regardless of links.
  • Esc — or the ✕ Exit button, top-right — leaves present mode.

Only the presented frame is drawn — no neighbours, arrows or chrome — so it reads as a clean, single-screen preview.

Good hotspots

A couple of habits that make a prototype feel real.

  • Name your frames clearly — the destination picker lists them by name.
  • Put the interaction on the visible control (the button), not a wrapper, so the click target matches what a viewer expects.
  • Keep each frame a complete screen; present mode shows exactly one at a time.