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Create separate, custom hotspot areas (e.g. larger than the visible shapes)

Now you can connect layers but what if you want to connect a hit area larger than a layer? Now you can work around this by drawing a rectangle behind the area and linking that up, but it would be great to be able to draw actual hotspots.

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  • Manon commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'm getting tired of all the empty boxes I need to draw to be able to have a larger area that's clickable.. I see that defining you 'hit area' is in the plans, but that was over 3 years ago.. Please..?

  • Farhan Ahmad commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Custom Hot-spot in Prototype mode is Highly Required as we can add this in Invision adobe should take this feature on priority or might people will opt out for Invision instead.

  • LW commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    PLEASE add the option to make custom hotspots. I made wireframes on Sketch and wanted to use Adobe XD's prototype function to link screens. Making the invisible rectangles is not ideal.

  • BP commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree with the inability to draw a hotspot is not ideal, but a workaround is to create a transparent rectangle around the tap-target (if text or icon) and make it a component. That way you can attach the interaction to the whole component.

  • PJ Stephen commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    YES. Working on a prototype for a brand that uses tiny, elegant type, and it's killing the usability of the prototype. PLEASE let us pad the hot spots. I even tried adding a 30 pixel stroke around the type, and setting the stroke to 100% transparent, but it did not expand the hit area.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please add this. It is helpful for those who may be transitioning (or evaluating) from the Sketch to Invision flow. I for example imported my massive Sketch files over. I have a horizontal menu in a bunch of pages that, out of convenience, shares the same text box (with just equal spaces between menu options). In Invision I would have been able to just make my own hot spots for these, but now I have to recreate the menu across a bunch of pages. Obviously I will not create such menus going forward if I knowingly plan to use XD for prototyping, but it did catch me off guard, and I can see many cases where custom hot spots would be quite desirable anyhow.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please add this feature it would help to get from png page icons and any step back or forward will be helpful

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please ad this feature, it would greatly benefit the creativity of XD if you could make the interactive area in any shape and not limited to a rectangle. Would be great to have the option to choose between a rectangle interactive area or just the fill/outline of your custom shape. This could for example allow you to create a clickable world map, where you can click on each different country or state. The limitation of the rectangular interactive area make this option completely impossible.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Would be great with a custom hotspot shape. Any closed vector shape should be a potential hotspot.

  • Cameron Sagey commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Another thought: Have a shortcut to start a link, like W, and then once the link is started you can hit the number keys to add 10px multiples of padding. (1 = 10px, 2 = 20px, etc.)

    Example Workflow:
    1. Click Element 2. Hit "W" 3. Hit "2" 4. Click Destination

    That would give you a link with 20px padding, and it would faster than dragging out a wire (current system)

  • Billy Mitchell commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The prototype target tooltip window has a very small hover area. If you don't move the mouse precisely from the trigger to the target window, it auto closes. Very frustrating causing you to have to re-click many times and very precisely move the mouse to use prototyping features.

  • Nir commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    anyone knows of a way to create a prototype with a fast way to create all options on the menu?

  • Nir commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Is it possible to make a hot spot in the prototype so it will repeat itself in all screen?
    like you have in Invision app for example

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