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click_Mao · 2024-07-03T02:02:06+00:00

What I can’t stand the most is that the panels of the new UI can’t be attached to the edges. They leave some gaps, wasting the space to display the main design and operation area. And visually, these gaps are also distracting my attention. The toolbar at the bottom also interferes with the main operation space, especially if its color is the same as my design draft. By the way, is it just for the convenience of novices to move it from the top to the bottom? If someone who uses Figma more frequently, he will use shortcuts instead of mouse clicks to trigger these functions. So I hope that adjustments can be made in time in the official version of UI3, otherwise these redesign will seem like a subjective conjecture of someone who doesn’t use Figma much.

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What I can’t stand the most is that the panels of the new UI can’t be attached to the edges. They leave some gaps, wasting the space to display the main design and operation area. And visually, these gaps are also distracting my attention.
The toolbar at the bottom also interferes with the main operation space, especially if its color is the same as my design draft. By the way, is it just for the convenience of novices to move it from the top to the bottom? If someone who uses Figma more frequently, he will use shortcuts instead of mouse clicks to trigger these functions.
So I hope that adjustments can be made in time in the official version of UI3, otherwise these redesign will seem like a subjective conjecture of someone who doesn’t use Figma much.

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Neil_Roose

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100% agree with all critical comments here. It looks like a ‘fashion’ update with no regards to usability and everyone involved should seriously consider a career change. My initial reaction was ‘oh great, they’ve found a way to make the workspace even more confined’. Terrible for my aging eyes. I’m moving back to Sketch if the legacy version becomes unavailable.

Vadim_Demenko

It is really sucks. Now you need to perform additional actions to do functions like set up constraints or auto-layout… I’m upset by what I see in Figma updates.

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Justin_AsuncionEsmena

OMG, thank you for this comment lol 🙏

Rasmus_Schultz

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So yeah, Penpot just posted an article talking about how they explored more or less the exact same UI concept, and decided to keep iterating.

Penpot Community – 9 Jul 24

More or less echoes everything I said in my post:

“Floating sidebars practically result in a loss of space because they require margins that serve no practical purpose.”

“Another of our objectives was to reduce the cognitive load of the interface to promote focus on the designed artifacts. This option did not align well with that goal for various reasons, such as the designs blending more easily with the interface due to showing in the separator spaces, where they added no functionality and left it unclear whether we should allow interaction with the layers.”

“Additionally, there were other issues, such as the difficult positioning of the rulers”

I just learned Figma 3 months ago and was quite enjoying it.

I really hope they take all of this feedback to heart and don’t push ahead with the UI as is.

It is clearly not ready to replace the old UI.

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Nesrin_Mk

the new design. Unfortunately, it hasn’t met my expectations and I find it uncomfortable to use. The significant changes to many aspects seem unsuitable for a platform used by millions.

I believe it would have been better to implement improvements gradually or focus on features that users have previously requested changes for. The new design is highly distracting, and even the fields for entering data appear inactive due to the gray color, which adds to the discomfort.

I hope the new design will be reconsidered to better align with our needs as users and allow us to work with focus and comfort.

pavelsoyfer

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Hi everyone, I just wanted to chime in with a bit of further feedback — the thing that made me switch back within the first 5 minutes was frame constraints (left/right/top/bottom/etc) being removed from the right side panel and now being accessible only as a fly-out menu. When working with larger frames with dense UI (desktop, 1440px, for instance), being able to check/set those constraints is kinda crucial to me.

Plus I absolutely agree with that was said about the UI panels not “sticking” to viewport edges. It looks cool at first glance, but I did notice being distracted by tiny bits of content showing through those edge gaps. I welcome the option to resize panels, but the left layer/pages pane was resizeable already and I can’t say I ever had issues with not being able to resize the properties panel to the right.

Anyways, those were my two cents. Hope the Figma team sees this thread and tweaks the new UI accordingly. I’m kinda glad to see I’m not alone in this 😌

Samuel_Braun

Please keep the option for the old design there as long as possible and make the ones responsible for the new design aware of how utterly trash it is. Hiding everything behind a 2-3 clicks just to make it look friendlier and easier than it naturally is, is just a clear money decision and not a “high quality of service and experience for our users” decision. I understand the decision is not yours but please make it a bit clearer for those making the decision that (and I cite from another medium article from Roman Kamushken):

The floating panels: They’re a waste of space and make it harder to use the ruler and guides. Unless you collapse the panel, it’s a constant annoyance.
The floating toolbar: It blends in with frames and is a pain to use. Many designers have asked for the option to move it to the top or bottom, but Figma hasn’t listened.
Non-contextual toolbar: Figma moved all the useful functions to the right panel and collapsed them behind a “More Actions” menu. It’s like they’re trying to hide the features that designers use the most.
Nested instances are collapsed by default: This is the most frustrating one for me. I have to manually open every accordion for every instance I need to adjust. It’s a huge time-waster and a major annoyance.

A project that took like 1000 clicks in the old UI would take like 4000 clicks in the new UI and 2000 clicks after getting used to it if you havent moved to something else already. And just to make it look more AI?