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Hello, I want to ask why the side menu in figma blurs when I don't put my mouse on it.

✅ 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 + R to toggle rulers, Alt + 1/2/3 to 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 + R to toggle rulers, Alt + 1/2/3 to 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.

  1. Takze som 2 hodiny nastavoval monitor, hruby font pisma vo Windovse, vecie pismo….
  1. Mate tam 3 moznosti Theme ajni v jednej sa neda nastavit nech to menu nerozmazava. 
  2. mam maly problem zo zrakom tak mi to fest vadi
  3. 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.
  4. budem rad ked taka moznost nastavenia pisma menu bude
  5.  Za ostatne vás chvalim je to pekne vyakané dobre sa s Figmou roby.

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