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UI3 Feedback

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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AmieGrace

I’m not a fan of UI3. The new features don’t justify the interface changes.

I know most people have already said this but at a minimum PLEASE make it so that the floating panels can be docked on the sides and the bottom toolbar can be moved back to the top. This new layout makes the workspace feel much more cluttered. I also really preferred the context-sensitive tools at the top rather than on the side as well. Not only this but the content in the right panel is now all over the place and some important options (like fill/fit/fixed width) are less easy to find because they’ve been hidden to, I assume, just make things look cleaner?

Honestly, I think the best thing to do would be to allow users to change the UI back to the old style if they want, and just add the new features into that. I’m still somewhat new to Figma myself having only used it a few months for a small handful of projects, and I really don’t feel that UI3 actually benefits new users more than the previous UI, which in my opinion looked nicer and was more intuitive as it was laid out more like other similar design programs.

Daniel3

This. This was my initial objection to the UI. What is the point of having the empty space to the left of the floating panel. I swear, I’ve met these designers. “lets make it look cool and floaty.” No one cares after the 1st glance at the visual design once they start using it. Like over designing a wrench. Just let me turn bolts! I’ve got thousands to go!

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Neva_Corbo-Hudak1

Could we please not hide controls? Only showing them on hover makes it really difficult to use.

Matt_Spencer1

I am frustrated with how the new UI3 forces me to hover to get the width of Hug/Fill for instances, but on the component itself it shows both. Please make instances show both as well. I need to see it at a glance when my mouse is busy elsewhere doing math or in a meeting. (I would happily stick with the old UI, and I toggle back and forth, but I am forcing myself to learn the webs UI and stay current)

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Kerry_Johnson_Personal

Smaller than 16px is fine especially static UI text. Please don’t act like 16px is the absolute minimum, even Apple uses smaller. But 9px subdued normal weight is pushing it. It should probably be 10 or 11px all caps for legibility.

Andrey_Barstakov

I think that 16 font size (if you focus on Inter) is really the absolute minimum. Just because Apple uses it doesn’t mean it’s good or right. Probably, for readability, the size should be at least 16 by Inter

Philipp_Lehmann

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Thanks for putting efforts into creating a new UI.
I dont generally want to push back but there are some general things that made me go back to the old UI for now. Here is a quick braindump.

The rows in the Layers panel feel smaller (maybe the target area isn’t even smaller, but it feels so tiny with the gaps. they suggest there is an actual unclickable gap between the rows)
Same for the attributes in the design panel. They feel smaller and harder to target.
And the attributes are harder to read (the contrast decreased, this makes everything muddier). Also the focus border is harder to spot. Not by much, but the old UI just feels more accurate.
For dark mode the semi transparent window header also looks washed out, depending on the background windows. I prefer a dark opaque background.

Hopefully some of this get heard…

Overall the UI takes on a lot of current UI design trends. And maybe thats the problem. It stands out less from the project you are working on.

PS: And of course the gaps, between the panels and the artboard. Get rid of them.

Zeeshan_Ali

I am teaching Figma to my students and I faced an issue which after asking from most of the students they were facing the same difficulty. If we look in the new UI Layout pannel have 2 sections “Layout” section and “Layout Grids” In previous UI they were together and they were quite easy to interact. At first glance I was not even able to look at the Layout section then after strugling fro 2 minutes I found that.
So my suggestion is to move “Layout” Section and “Layout Grid” together. Like One after another.
Thank you

Leonel_Vitorino

New Member

This is of the utmost importance when working with several libraries in a single file.
It deserves to be a topic in itself, so it can gather dedicated votes and be worthy of attention from Figma development team.
Could you create a Topic/request with this info @FullTrucker ?