Hello, I want to ask why the side menu in figma blurs when I don't put my mouse on it.
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Figma text in menu
Best answer by Saquib Feroze
✅ Focus Optimization
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Figma fades or blurs side UI panels to direct your attention to the main design canvas. It’s a common UX pattern in creative tools to reduce distraction.
✅ Hover-Based UI Activation
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When your mouse is not on the panel, Figma assumes you're not using it, so it de-emphasizes it.
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As soon as you move your cursor over it, it becomes fully opaque and interactive again.
✅ Performance & Aesthetic
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A subtle blur or dim effect can give a cleaner, less overwhelming look especially on large screens or complex projects.
Figma does not provide a built-in option to disable this behavior. It’s part of their interface design.
If you find it distracting or less accessible:
🛠 Workaround Tips:
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Keep the panel focused by clicking on it – even if your mouse leaves, it may stay active for some actions.
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Use keyboard shortcuts to access tools instead of relying on mouse hover (e.g.,
Shift + Rto toggle rulers,Alt + 1/2/3to switch between tabs).
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✅ Focus Optimization
-
Figma fades or blurs side UI panels to direct your attention to the main design canvas. It’s a common UX pattern in creative tools to reduce distraction.
✅ Hover-Based UI Activation
-
When your mouse is not on the panel, Figma assumes you're not using it, so it de-emphasizes it.
-
As soon as you move your cursor over it, it becomes fully opaque and interactive again.
✅ Performance & Aesthetic
-
A subtle blur or dim effect can give a cleaner, less overwhelming look especially on large screens or complex projects.
Figma does not provide a built-in option to disable this behavior. It’s part of their interface design.
If you find it distracting or less accessible:
🛠 Workaround Tips:
-
Keep the panel focused by clicking on it – even if your mouse leaves, it may stay active for some actions.
-
Use keyboard shortcuts to access tools instead of relying on mouse hover (e.g.,
Shift + Rto toggle rulers,Alt + 1/2/3to switch between tabs).
How do you reproduce that?
I am currently up to date and running the desktop version on Mac and I am not getting that. I swear if this happens to me my company will 100% leave and go back to Sketch.
We are already testing a sketch cross back just because of the added clicks and rearranged, renamed, new icon and horrible click buried assets.
✅ Focus Optimization
-
Figma fades or blurs side UI panels to direct your attention to the main design canvas. It’s a common UX pattern in creative tools to reduce distraction.
✅ Hover-Based UI Activation
-
When your mouse is not on the panel, Figma assumes you're not using it, so it de-emphasizes it.
-
As soon as you move your cursor over it, it becomes fully opaque and interactive again.
✅ Performance & Aesthetic
-
A subtle blur or dim effect can give a cleaner, less overwhelming look especially on large screens or complex projects.
Figma does not provide a built-in option to disable this behavior. It’s part of their interface design.
If you find it distracting or less accessible:
🛠 Workaround Tips:
-
Keep the panel focused by clicking on it – even if your mouse leaves, it may stay active for some actions.
-
Use keyboard shortcuts to access tools instead of relying on mouse hover (e.g.,
Shift + Rto toggle rulers,Alt + 1/2/3to switch between tabs).
This is a design tool for designing UX, Tools need to be immediately accessible & viewable at all times. We all have our own workflows and telling a designer where there focus needs to be IS NOT anyone else’s job. Your workaround is not a solution for our team, we’ll go back to Sketch.
(adobe ubates may always screw us up, but for as bad as adobe is, they don’t hide all their tools.
- Takze som 2 hodiny nastavoval monitor, hruby font pisma vo Windovse, vecie pismo….
- Mate tam 3 moznosti Theme ajni v jednej sa neda nastavit nech to menu nerozmazava.
- mam maly problem zo zrakom tak mi to fest vadi
- prvej to musim vidiet az potom tam viem kliknut, cize ak chcete predvidat tak by ste ma museli sledovat cez webcameru a kede otocim hlavu tam zaostrite.
- budem rad ked taka moznost nastavenia pisma menu bude
- Za ostatne vás chvalim je to pekne vyakané dobre sa s Figmou roby.
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