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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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Cristian_Banu

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Yeah, the new UI is definitely not an improvement. The margins are weird, you can see your actual frames behind the sidebars and toolbars, which makes everything looks messy.

I have no idea what problems they were trying to solve, and how in the world this became a viable solution.

Also, something that’s even more mind boggling, is the fact that they changed everything so drastically, so suddenly. It’s one of the most common sense things to do in UX, and that is make changes gradually. But of course, only when needed. In this context it doesn’t make any sense. A perfectly good app gets a complete makeover for no valid reason.

madhura_mhatre

agreed, the new update sucks

Andrey_Barstakov

Because of the small fonts and small elements (buttons, icons), the new interface looks disgusting

My eyes instantly get tired and start to hurt due to the fact that they have to put so much effort into literally every element of the new interface. Why is everything so small???

And the scale of the interface does not work correctly, because it breaks the zoom

Ryan_Schmidt

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I couldn’t wait for the new UI. I finally got it this morning and used it all day today, and by the end of the day reverted back to the old UI. I agree, the lighter colors make finding sections more difficult, but they changed the hierarchy on most things on the right panel, and it was extremely frustrating to use. It’s not intuitive. I’ve taught Figma basics to literally hundreds of people and this new UI simply does not make sense. Things like check boxes don’t have enough contrast to see quickly. Like, who was in their testing group? Who in their test group said, “Oh yeah I want you to hide the constraints because I love clicking multiple times to make sure my frame doesn’t warp something, and put text line height formatting with layout instead of text, even though it’s the only relevant area.” And I love that infrequently-used actions such as merging/subtraction have two paths to get to them, literally right next to each other. Like the right panels is so beyond wrecked it’s insane. I haven’t given the left panel much thought, but why would anyone want to collapse all of their frames without hiding the panel UI? And why would anyone want to nearly fully collapse the panel UI, when the option to hide all panels is a shortcut away, and yields nearly the same result?

I want to keep bashing it, but I could write another 5,000 words on this, so I’ll let it be.

Brian_Saunders

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…disgusting? Really?

Jason_Russell

I agree the new UI is a bit of work to get used to. Certain features previously easily accessible are difficult to find now, though I presume after a while I’ll get used to it again.

It would be helpful though to add custom actions into the main bar at the bottom (or at least make them visible by default in the right panel) - as I personally use actions like Union Selection and Subtract Selection etc a lot, and they’re not immediately visible as they were previously.

Tilio_Moulin

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Agree it sucks, creating components, setting size and constraints, men…

Jeff39

My most overused button is ‘Add a Variant.’ Now, it’s hidden in the top right corner of my screen, inside the ‘More’ options, and then you have to click ‘Add a Variant.’ Extra steps! Unlike before, when you could just click it at the top of the toolbar—easy to navigate.

Andrey_Barstakov

Disgusting. Really

My main complaint relates to the size of fonts, icons and interactive elements. Why is everything so small?
Use Inter 16, make the minimum size of interactive elements 40x40 and you will get an incredibly comfortable interface

There are also problems with the lack of font accents and holes due to flying panels, but this is less critical

JoeGarner

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Intro : I’m going to point out some issues with the new UI design for Figma, and then explain why the original UI is better. In short: the new UI makes it more difficult to see, and wastes screen space.

New UI issues: