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click_Mao
New Member
July 3, 2024

UI3 Feedback

  • July 3, 2024
  • 426 replies
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  1. 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.
  2. 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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426 replies

Sensi_Labs_Ltd
October 11, 2024

I totally agree with the above – the new UI is absolutely unfriendly to the users who work for several years with that interface. The right panel with the properties is hard to understand and I don’t find any logic with the new division of sections. Unnecessary revolution, to be honest.

a2609661273
New Participant
October 11, 2024

The new version of Figma is so ugly, why change it to Sketch like interaction? Figma is already the most user-friendly product, and if you have to copy the interaction of a junk product, what did the designer and product manager think? And with this color, I don’t want to say. The UI is a piece of crap, and the rounded corners are simply used. It’s a piece of crap, and it doesn’t even consider how big the user’s screen is. Do you know how ugly it is to have a Docker bar at the bottom when opening a browser on Windows?

Ruben8
New Member
October 11, 2024

It was not a priority for me to update the interface. I think there are bigger issues to work on for Figma, but isn’t it also a matter of getting used to? I am not experiencing any major problems and/or frustrations yet.

Sean33
October 11, 2024

I used the new UI for 10 seconds, absolutely hated main tools being moved to the bottom. WORST choice. Instant no from me. Also it not a fan of it automatically switching up the black ui to light. I reverted back.

Please don’t roll out!!

Leigh4
New Participant
October 11, 2024

This new UI has been poorly designed and considered. The floating tool bar just adds more clutter (and you don’t seem to be able to move it), text is too small in the UI panels. Can’t find my assets easily by visual scanning. I could go on, but it’s all been said above and I just wanted to voice how bad this is.

Sofie
New Participant
October 11, 2024

I find it kind if fairly ironic that an application that is used by a large amout of people that work with making designs and services that should be accessible, doesn’t respect contrast in their UI.

I was not a part of the beta, and I just received the new Figma UI3 today.

I was quite shocked to find low contrast elements like this switch/toggle in the new UI:

I genuinely thought the toggle was disabled.

Here is a screenshot of the old UI:

a2609661273
New Participant
October 11, 2024

Your machine translated English is really bad, don’t you check it after translating? What I want to say is: new designers designing new versions of UI do not need to negate the layout and interaction of the previous version, or the designers of the previous version. Not all new UI designers have to come up and make major changes!!!

Jaan_UX
October 11, 2024

I need some time to get used to the new UI, so I won’t provide feedback based solely on my initial experience. Currently, it’s a bit confusing, and I find myself spending time trying to find features that were easily accessible before, such as creating components and changing elements from hug to fill. Since I don’t use shortcuts, I heavily rely on how the UI displays different elements.

I’m really frustrated that the component changes requiring updates don’t have any visible cue to grab my attention. Since I work with a library where I can’t update all elements at the same time, it’s important for me to be able to notice this.

Ruben8
New Member
October 11, 2024

I agree on that, but I think it is not that terrible. Hopefully the Figma-team will listen to you and all the other users. I’ve seen dozens of this kind of topics, so I assume they will act properly.

Have nice weekend!

BlackGold
New Participant
October 11, 2024

It’s Disaster. It’s absolute mistake. It’s horrible nightmare to me cause i’ve been using Figma for over a year and all my designs was perfect, what does make design perfect, perfect tools and perfect Interface that designer use in the apps. NEW UI3 is the opposite.