Design
The Design panel gives you full control over how your Arcade appears and behaves. From backgrounds to autoplay settings, this is where you make your Arcade truly your own.
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The Design panel gives you full control over how your Arcade appears and behaves. From backgrounds to autoplay settings, this is where you make your Arcade truly your own.
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See the section for full details on choosing and editing your Arcade's theme.
The Wrapper is the frame around your Arcade that gives it the look of being inside a browser window. You can choose:
Light Wrapper
Dark Wrapper
No Wrapper (for a minimalist look)
Yes! You can change it to light, dark, or remove it entirely to better match your brand or embedding environment.
You can:
Choose from preset backgrounds.
Upload your own (PNG, GIF, etc.).
Leave the background blank for a simpler look.
You can control what viewers' cursors look like when interacting with your Arcade:
Standard cursor
Enlarged cursor
Mobile-style tap cursor
No — it only affects the live playback experience, not the captured cursor during recording.
Yes.
Adjust fonts to any Google Font.
Set hotspot and callout colors with HEX codes.
Use Themes to apply consistent styles across multiple Arcades (Growth plan).
Yes — choose any Google Font in the Design panel. Enterprise users can request to upload custom fonts.
Metadata lets you organize and describe your Arcade for both internal and external use.
You can set:
Internal title (if this differs from the external title)
External title (seen by users)
Description (appears on share pages, not embeds)
The thumbnail is the preview image used when sharing your Arcade publicly.
You can:
Upload a custom image
Select a specific step as the thumbnail
If you don't choose a step, your thumbnail will be the first image step of your Arcade.
Adding music can make your Arcade feel more polished and engaging. Similar to watching a video with music, music can keep the viewer clicking around for longer.
Arcade includes five royalty-free tracks.
Upload your own MP3 if you prefer.
We recommend keeping music volume below 45%, ideally around 20%, to avoid overwhelming users.
Audio ducking automatically lowers the music volume when synthetic voice or other step audio plays, so voices stay clear. Arcade automatically applies audio ducking to all Arcades with sound.
Navigation adds a progress bar and lets users jump between steps.
Options:
Off: No navigation.
Auto: Appears on hover.
On: Always visible.
Yes. You can exclude any step from appearing in the navigation to make it so that only Chapter steps or other useful steps appear. This is useful for after-steps, transitions, or mini instructional segments that don’t need to be highlighted.
Auto Pan and Zoom creates natural pan and zoom movements between steps to highlight user clicks.
Only available for Arcades captured using the Chrome extension.
Not available on video or desktop uploads (yet — update coming!).
Auto Pan and Zoom is not enabled on video steps, but you can manually add pan and zoom animations from the top toolbar.
Autoplay makes your Arcade progress automatically without requiring user clicks.
Arcade-level Autoplay: Entire Arcade auto-plays until interrupted by a click from the viewer.
Step-level Autoplay: Only certain steps auto-advance.
Choose:
Automatic delay (based on text/speech amount)
Manual delay (fixed number of seconds)
Yes — video steps automatically move to the next step whether or not a hotspot is present.
Invisible Hotspots hide your click areas, making your Arcade feel like a live software demo while still requiring user interaction.
Giving demos at conferences
Sales meetings
Solutions engineering presentations
Press Command + Shift + D while previewing to toggle them on/off.
Mobile View optimizes your Arcade for screens smaller than 600px wide.
Hotspots and callouts move below the Arcade.
Navigation buttons appear under the Arcade.
If your callouts and hotspots are appearing under the Arcade, it’s because Mobile View is active.
You can toggle Mobile View off in the Design panel if you prefer the standard experience.
Yes! Always preview on mobile to ensure readability, image clarity, and interaction usability.
No special code is needed — but if embedding inline feels too small, consider using a pop-out link instead.
Yes — click the expand button (top right) when viewing an Arcade to open it fullscreen. Fullscreen on iframes may be blocked by some websites, like Notion.
Need help polishing your Arcade for your site or campaign? Here are Arcade-expert designers we trust:
We also love seeing great examples — feel free to email us once your Arcade is live!
Backgrounds add a decorative area around your Arcade on desktop views. They are hidden on (screens under 600px wide).
Yes — if you save them inside your settings, your team can reuse the same backgrounds easily.
See the section for more details on audio