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Julian_Chen
February 25, 2021
Question

Prototypes Lagging Very Badly

  • February 25, 2021
  • 45 replies
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Recently my project prototypes have started to lag incredibly and become unusable for presentations. The latest change I can think of is updating my table components into variants.

Granted I have very big projects, but they ran well previously and now even just trying to open an overlay on the very starting screen is impossible. This only started recently, within this week.

I cannot share any videos of this now due to confidentiality. If necessary I would need to blank out some elements. I was wondering if anyone else has the same experience.

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45 replies

MattBraun
New Participant
December 13, 2021

This is STILL a major issue!!! Prototyping is basically worthless for more than 2-3 screens.

Nathan_Rosler
December 15, 2021

Having the same issue, serious lag in between interactions. Makes for impossible user testing.

Any work arounds?

Apple
December 17, 2021

Same here. @poiru ?

Tawfiq_Aliyu
December 30, 2021

I have this same problem, Its driving me crazy

Apple
January 2, 2022

It’s been almost a year since this thread was started

Scott_Jenson
April 8, 2022

Here it is many months later and I’m still having the same issue. As this was fixed before, it appears to be a server issue. Figma, any chance you can get someone to look at this?

Aditi_Khandelwal
New Member
April 9, 2022

I have the same issue. whenever I click on the play button it shows me a black screen.

David.Stenbeck
April 26, 2022

This is actually pretty embarassing. Figma has by far the worst prototype performance of any alternative. The performance is exactly as bad on a brand new m1 macbook as a 7 year old macbook pro which is absurd.

HarryN
New Member
July 27, 2022

Same here, my prototypes work pretty fine until I start adding interactions. Ten instant click interactions with no animations whatsoever are enough to make my prototypes laggy and unusable.

I seriously can’t believe that such issues persist since at least 2020, and Figma doesn’t seem to even bother fixing them anytime soon.

I’ve been using Figma for 3 months and I’m already thinking about switching to another design tool.

Uma_shankar1
October 8, 2022

Hi, yesterday my figma application was working fine , but today a particular project alone lags and working too low . A guy asked me to work his project and sent me a link so i was doing it . I just wanna know whether my figma is lagging because of his link ?