Please reconsider the mass switching of UI3 on April 30

Bump. Switching to UI3 is an efficiency killer.

It’s the useless floating toolbar sitting directly over my work that does it for me. I cannot believe the placement of this bar still isn’t optional, and that you can’t hide and just use shortcuts. This was not a problem that needed solving. It’s incredibly unpopular across Figma forums and Reddit. Not listening to a community of people who design for a living is wild. Please reconsider mass switch to UI3 until this issue is resolved.

(not to mention the st-stu-stuttery transition in that useless toolbar when switching to dev mode)

Also this (old screencap of mine but the problem still persists)

Not happy. This floating toolbar, which is never used by any professional designer because we use shortcuts, is super annoying. Please reconsider, I still use UI2 and whenever I try to switch, I revert back after a couple of minutes because I need to get work done, and UI3 stops me from doing that. I’ve been looking all tutorials regarding UI3 and I design very complex b2b applications for a living, so, it’s not about “getting used to it”. UI3 is simply not good for working fast.

I signed up for this forum just to find out how to fix that broken floating toolbar in the middle of the screen. I’m frustrated and disappointed to see that it’s been months now and they’re refusing to fix it and apparently just doubling down by removing the option to use the previous UI. I’m dreading April 30th.

For the love of everything holy, Figma, do NOT kill UI2.

UI3 is a living nightmare. I mean, just read the 15 pages of the love here: 

• UI3 Feedback

I will jump ship to PenPot so fast and I will drag everyone I work with along.

Not happy with the UI3. It seems that it made my workflow about 10% slower and not because it’s new.

Type layout properties are now detached from the type section - I need to switch to the different UI block to use it.

Frame resizing - Fixed, Fill etc are now cleverly hidden within the pixel width menu - WHY do you feel the need to combine them?

Floating toolbar is very annoying, what’s the benefit of it?

UI controls for components are now even more confusing.

All these little decorations and outlines around elements - why? You just adding to a cognitive load and increasing processing time.

Such a step down honestly.

This pervasive urge to fix what isn’t broken is the ruin of all good software. See Adobe Photoshop for reference. 🙄

The more we pay, the more they'll just spend it on pointless UI3 updates. Stop funding their bad UI3 designs—just switch to Penpot.

I don’t want to lose my productivity. As a ultra-heavy user I’ve made 10+ attempts to get used to this UI3 abomination but it simply drags my productivity down in cognitive and physical sense. 

Now this announcement is like saying to a surgeon that he has one month left operating with a scalpel. After that it’s kitchen knife.

Can you please don’t do this to us.

Glad I still have 2019 macbook pro. I’ll use the touch bar for the floating bar while I parachute myself into the nearest active volcano 🪂🌋👍

The dealbreaker here for me is how the Position and Layout panels aren’t fixed position at the top of the right sidebar. I am constantly directly editing the position and size of elements, particularly for design systems work but also very frequently in product work.

The fact that layer type / component properties supercede these universal properties and push them up and down the sidebar by variable amounts depending on what I have selected is like actually one of the most infuriating UX decisions in a tool that I can remember. If I could just keep these stickied to the top of the sidebar and put the component properties beneath, I would be fine with UI3. I mean, would also love to get rid of the floating toolbar or have the option to move it back to the top, it’s very annoying, but that doesn’t torpedo my workflow the way that the Position/Size jumping around does.

Please please please move component properties below the Position & Layout panels or allow this to be configurable. I’m dreading April 30.

I created this account just to come on here and try leave feedback to stop the mass switching. I have tried several times to change to the new UI, but it is making my design process so much slower. Simple tasks that I do on a daily basis are hidden away somewhere new and I spend most of my time finding simple things like “Fill” or “Hug”.
Please do not force me to use this navigation. As per the bottom floating bar… get rid of it. It doesn’t look good on Adobe products, and it doesn’t work here either.
Not happy.

I can't believe Figma is forcing this change on us. UI3 is, without a doubt, the most unfriendly design possible. It has made my workflow painfully slow and incredibly unproductive. What’s the harm in letting people CHOOSE which UI works best for them?

I always thought switching to UI3 was a HUGE mistake, but I never felt the need to comment on it because UI2 was still an option. Now that you're FORCING this change, I have to speak up.

This is NOT an upgrade. It’s a downgrade in usability, efficiency, and user experience. Figma was supposed to be about flexibility and user-centered design—so why ignore the feedback of those who actually use the platform every day?

Give us back the choice. Let people stick to UI2 if they want. This forced migration is a slap in the face to long-time users who built their workflow around UI2.