Missing the new left navbar announced at Schema 2025

Is there any update, when the new layout will be available for all users? It is really annoying, that members of the same team have to work with different layouts and different possibilities. 

Hey, totally hear you both! 

I don’t have a new timeline to share just yet, but I’ve passed along your feedback about the inconsistency to the team. This is still being slowly rolled out, so it’s expected that some users may see different versions of the UI until the rollout is complete.!-->

Really appreciate your patience in the meantime! 

Hi, Appreciate there’s a lot of other priorities for Figma, but any update on this.
Half the team have it, half don’t? 
The inconsistency is strange and frustrating.
Thanks  
 

I get that you rollout in waves. I get that you are cautious. But anouncing it as available and 8 Month later we are still waiting ist BAD communication.

I don’t need a newsletter with lates shit, to then know i need to wait 8-12 month before it arives at my desk. Time to market should be measured as “all customers have it” not  “when did we roll out a first wave” or “time of anouncment”. 

“monitor performance”, please! I call BS! If you roll it out to a couple 1000 people you will know if it causes issues. no need to wait so long.

Give us a propper “restore version” option, or a “experimental branch” that we can subscripe to. Have seen it many time in other products. its sad that we need to point you to alternative product launch options. 

That from a company that should know better than any other about user engagement is disappointing

Same here. My colleague has had it for months. 
Pretty frustrating when Figma announces new features and there are clearly users who can’t use them even months later….
Released in January and now nearly the end of May. That’s not funny. When I have colleagues using and learning new tools this is actually professionally harmful.

Same here. It massively doesn’t inspire confidence in Figma as an organisation. I find myself getting progressively disillusioned with them and I’ve been here since the beginning...

It’s been more than 5 months already.

The most frustrating part isn’t even the delay anymore, it’s the complete lack of transparent communication around it. Features are publicly announced as “available,” tutorials and promotional content are pushed aggressively, and teams begin restructuring workflows around them, while a significant portion of users still have no access months later and no meaningful visibility into rollout timelines.

I fully understand phased rollouts and the importance of monitoring stability at scale. But after this long, the level of inconsistency across users, accounts, and even members within the same organization feels poorly managed rather than intentional.

And marking the thread as “solved” while the issue is very clearly still unresolved only adds to the frustration. The rollout is still incomplete, users are still waiting, and there’s still no actual timeline being communicated.

At some point, continuing to market a feature as generally available while many paying users are still excluded from access becomes genuinely difficult to justify. 

​@Gayani_S , ​@Celine_ 

The issue is clearly not resolved yet, so marking this thread as “solved” feels very misleading.

Many users are still waiting after 5+ months, teams are still dealing with inconsistent workflows, and there’s still no proper rollout timeline or visibility being shared.

Closing or marking discussions as solved while the actual problem still exists only adds more frustration for users who are actively affected by it.

Hey ​@Dinesh Panneerselvam , thanks for taking the time to share this feedback! I understand the rollout experience around it have felt confusing.

As ​@djv mentioned previously, the left navigation bar are still being gradually rolled out to users, which is why some accounts may still not have access yet. At the moment, we unfortunately don’t have a more specific rollout timeline to share.

I also want to acknowledge your point about the thread being marked as solved. The previous reply was marked as the best answer only to pin the latest official update from our team for visibility, not to imply the rollout itself was complete.

To help avoid further confusion, I’ve now updated the thread and pinned the latest rollout update at the top instead.

I’ve also shared this Forum topic internally for visibility, we appreciate you raising it.

same here i dont have it yet too been waiting to try it! cant wait!

That’s the whole problem. You don’t have any timeline. Just ask intern what is the status. Just give us some transparency. I cannot be this big that is takes so long. New functions about grids are pushing fast. You tell us everytime that you don’t have a timeline. Just fix the timeline then. This is BS!