UI3 Feedback

I agree with all, and the letter size is extremely small! Why making everything more difficult?

Frame layout Grid makes no sense ⛔
New UI needs real improvements in Hierarchy, UX and UI.

• Lack of hierarchy, pathless icons, more steps and unorganized journeys are all the way around.
• I feel management is deciding to avoid designer needs as much as they can, this software’s core user was changed to developers, that is taking the software into quicksand

Don’t fall into Adobe’s ways, you’re in time, please. 🥹

I have been using the redesign since beta version, and the more that I used, the more that I hate it.
I use Figma since 2019, and I can say that this UI2 to UI3 migrations is such a pain, a perfect example of Bigbang fail.

• Hidden content is dead content
• To move the bar down, is just feel very wrong, now my Apple bar is competing with my Figma bar.
• Try to find something like a plugin. You really need to see a tutorial to find it out
• The Icon is just a change that is not justifiable. If something works good for user, don’t touch it! What ever you do new they will hate it
• I’m 35 years old, and somehow I feel that everything is just smaller and more crowded. Probably the font size is the same, but it feels less clickable.

Honestly guys I was very excited about this change but now that I have been using it for I while, it feels more and more wrong to work with UI3

Garbage. Particularly the Text section. Who approves this crap?? *Hey Figma… watch your company do a complete nosedive if you keep ignoring your core demographic: designers. We’ll quickly find something much more accommodating.

You can locally force some changes in Figma’s CSS to customize the UI (even if you’re using the desktop version). That allows us to hide the toolbar, for example.

I’ve created a short tutorial (2 minutes) on how to do just that in the desktop version:

I’ll also create a tutorial on how to do that on the web based version later today. It’ll work on any browser that supports extensions.

The new UI makes me feel… claustrophobic.

I went back to the “old” UI and I’m happy now.

Component Search [Shift + I] is impacting my workflow negatively compared to before UI 3

Hello folks at Figma and Figma Community!

Since the implementation of UI I’ve consistently ran into a frustration in my workflow that hasn’t happened in the past. I tried to work around it but it really slows me down with the amount of times I use it.

Everytime I do a component search using “shift + I” and then drag and drop the component I want to use, it keeps the component search open and covering the screen. I then have to double click out of the component search or click on the “Actions” icon on the bottom to close this and go on with my work.

This adds unnecessary steps compared to before. My desired behavior is that upon dragging the component in, the component search / actions floating window would close automagically.

Pretty please update this asap 🙏

To my previous thread of show/hide UI. After using UI3 for a while here if great workable solution. Best will be to give us these 3 options

Command + \ - Hide Design panel UI only
Shirt + \ - Hide Left side (Layers) UI only
Command + Shift + \ - Hide all UI

and may be a bonus
\ - hides the toolbar in the middle of the screen

Those 3 shortcuts should work at all times, and not like currently show/hide layers (left side) UI is only available with the floating menu but not available when both UI sides are docked - Rush change, really annoying - makes me click twice 1. go to floating mode first, then 2. hide layers (left side) UI. Why complicating it?

Absolute garbage. I went back to the old UI, and I’ll switch to an update when Figma comes back to their senses.

The layers panel can be vertically resized, have you tried that?

If you use Figma in a browser, such as Chrome, Firefox or Edge, you can use the Stylus extension to force CSS changes and customize the UI. That allows us to hide the toolbar, for example.

I’ve created a short tutorial (2 minutes) on how to do just that:

No one should be looking for 3rd party workarounds, Figma should listen its users instead of management unaware of design processes. The design community is stuck.

I feel like anything to do with components, variants and properties have been hidden well and truly away with tiny icons.

Took me forever to realize that properties have been lumped together with variables and it now take several additional clicks to create a new property in a component. It was so simple before and feels a lot less intuitive in UI3.

Absolutely hate it. I just started and the older version that most tutorials use looks way more intuitive to use. Now it’s just menu within menu within menu… Might as well just go back to Adobe.

how do you revert? Is not long that i use it but i’m going crazy with the little things that i knew lol

Before UI3 I used to click

• K > Tab > [24] > Return. to quickly scale element to 24px width
• K > Tab > Tab > [24] > Return. to quickly scale element to 24px height

Now I have to click

• K > Shift+Tab > Shift + Tab > [24] > Return. to scale element to 24px height

The first one was easier and faster. anyone agrees?

That’s exactly the problem I had. I searched and searched, and the value is far away from the actual option. Who comes up with something like that?
At the moment, I find it all so uneconomical

Anyone have this issue? Accidentally selected a variable then when you try to select a new one, the dropdown menu does NOT jump to the current selected variable, which is NOT highlighted? I’m working with long list of variables, this is a nightmare. Have to search most of the time just to select the one right below what I’ve selected. The most frustrating thing is sometimes it DOES jump to and highlight the selected variable (same file, same library, same screen even), that’s when I know I have to put up with this because this is a bug no one cares.

The boolean operation used to be up front in the old UI, now they have been hidden behind a generic ... button which only took me about 12 minute to figure it out.
Why?

That’s a stupid solution. We don’t want to hide it. We want it back in its old place!

Every time I try to give the new UI a chance, I spend way too much time trying to find something that was very simple to find before and end up switching back to the old UI. I wish there was a better tutorial within the app so you can easily see what changed.

Yes!! I was about to write the same. I would not want to lift my hands off the keyboard. It is one simple click, I get it, but having to try so many iterations using ‘K’ is so useful. I wouldn’t want to get my mouse in between

Also making the X value as default input will get rid of one more ‘tab’ click.

Do whatever you want, Just give me an option to downgrade to my choice of Figma version. And don’t force me to update.

This new UI is just BS. I have a very hard time to look and find the icons. Why do I have to remember different icons while I can Just use (+) to add anything. Feels like I have to learn how to use this software…AGAIN!

Give me downgrade option PLEASEEEEEE!