Blur Figma During Screen Sharing: Hide Unreleased Designs and Client Work

To hide unreleased designs and client work in Figma while screen sharing, run Figma in the browser at figma.com and use a browser extension like BlurFirst to blur specific frames, file names and mockup data before you present. The blur is painted into the tab as real pixels, so it holds on Zoom, Meet, Teams and Loom. One important note up front: this works on Figma in the browser — the standalone desktop app is a native window, so a browser extension cannot reach it.

What a Figma screen share can give away

Designers share Figma constantly — design reviews, stakeholder demos, client walkthroughs — and a single tab can expose far more than the one screen you meant to show. The canvas holds neighboring work, the chrome around it holds names, and the top bar holds your team. Before you present, plan to hide:

• Unreleased designs and prototypes — frames for features that have not shipped, sitting one pan away from the frame you are presenting.
• Client and project names — in the file browser, the browser tab title, the breadcrumb, and the pages and layers panel.
• Real user data inside mockups — a dashboard design filled with real names, emails and financial figures instead of placeholder data.
• Comments — comment pins and threads that show teammate names and candid, in-progress feedback.
• Collaborator avatars — the multiplayer avatar cluster and live cursors that reveal exactly who is in the file.
• File browser thumbnails — a grid of every project's cover image the moment you navigate back to Recents.

Browser Figma vs. the desktop app

This is the key limitation to plan around, so decide before the call. BlurFirst is a browser extension, so it applies to Figma running in a Chromium browser — Chrome, Edge, Brave or Opera — at figma.com. If you present from the Figma desktop app, it is a native window and the extension cannot paint into it. The fix is simple: for any screen share where privacy matters, open the file in the browser and share that tab. Everything else in this guide then applies exactly.

1. 1

   Open Figma in the browser

   Go to figma.com in Chrome, Edge, Brave or Opera, open your file, and press Ctrl/⌘ ⇧ Y to start blurring.

2. 2

   Blur off-screen and unreleased frames

   Use Element blur to click any frame or prototype you do not want seen; click it again to reveal it when you are ready to present it.

3. 3

   Hide client names in the chrome

   Element-blur the file name in the tab bar, the breadcrumb, and the layers and pages panel so project and client names do not leak.

4. 4

   Cover real data in mockups

   Box-blur the region of a dashboard mockup that holds real names, emails or financials while you show the layout around it.

5. 5

   Mask comments and avatars

   Element-blur comment pins and the collaborator avatar cluster so teammate names stay private.

6. 6

   Save a per-file profile and keep Panic ready

   Save a profile so the same frames and panels re-blur on load, and press Ctrl/⌘ ⇧ H to hide everything if you pan into unreleased work.

Figma's canvas is a live web app that re-renders as you zoom and pan. BlurFirst stores a CSS selector for each blurred element and anchors box blurs to the page, so masks over the layers panel, the tab chrome and comment pins re-attach across re-renders. It stores the selector, never the design inside it, and everything stays local — nothing you blur leaves the browser and the only network request is a license check.

Two honest caveats. First, a box blur is anchored to the page, so it is best for fixed panels and static mockup regions; panning the canvas moves artwork beneath a fixed box, so use element blur for frames that live on the canvas. Second, BlurFirst covers the browser tab only — not the desktop app, other windows, or OS notifications — so open your file in the browser and mute notifications the usual way.