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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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Aric-PML
New Member
October 11, 2024

Thank you! Now I can get back to work.

Not a fan of the new UI at all.

Lynsey_Loftus
October 11, 2024

Agree with all the of the criticisms here.

If you need to make a guide this long to help people understand your changes, you’ve done something very wrong.

vania_rivera
October 11, 2024

I hate the new UI, I was working on something last night and when I reloaded the page cause my wifi went off it was totally different and everything it’s hidden you cannot find things easily and I have to do extra work just to find the plugins again. The learning curve it’s hard and I do not have time to learn new things while I have deadlines.

Anahit_Vardanyan
October 11, 2024

Just want to share I was happy to find out that You can Go back to previews UI from the bottom Help and resources icon.

At first Design panel in new version they put everything in shapes it makes you feel in the box it’s hard to find what is where even if they didn’t change much. I have used Figma for past 5 years so I just intuitively look up there but putting every action in gray frame makes you feel disturbing.

Even telling that new changes need some time to get use to it, Toolbar at the bottom I don’t like that much, I can defiantly say that having all navigation from top makes me feel more comfortable with the tools, I’m designing my page from top to bottom not from bottom to top so thats what make me feel

Nellya
Power Member
October 11, 2024

You still can use old one

pushinpixels
October 11, 2024

As a Figma user for 5 years, I had to revert back because the right pane is just not usable. It is so disorienting now that the position and auto-layout properties sections shifts depending on what you selected, and the fit/fill controls are buried.

Yuxin
October 11, 2024

Me too! The new UI is so difficult to use. The Constrains Panel is gone, which makes the responsiveness set up very challenging.

Vincent_Lo
New Member
October 11, 2024

I also prefer the old UI. I am so used to seeing the boolean operations at the top center bar when multiple objects are selected. In the new UI it appears to be hidden in a context menu and you need to click a down arrow in the right panel to reveal it. Not very discoverable there.

I also second keeping the constraints panel where it used to be. The new UX pattern for revealing the constraints panel is not intuitive. It is represented by a non-universal icon to the right of the “Position” controls. I could not draw a connection between the icon and “Contraints”.

Thaysa
October 11, 2024

Please keep the toolbar at the top, where we are used to it. At the bottom, in addition to confusing scrolling, when the panels are collapsed, the toolbar would remain on the same line.

Andree_Laroche
October 11, 2024

I am also very disoriented with the right panel, but the worst for me is the low contract tabs to navigate between my projects. I use the light version (I see fuzzy fonts when it’s too high contrast because of some vision issues) and right now it takes me so much time to scan quickly between tabs. I keep re-reading them and can’t make a quick decision click like I used to. I will definitely revert to the previous version since I work in multiple projects at once.