UI3 Feedback

Agree. Here’s a real life example as to what is disturbing in the gap

This would do my nut in. Definately need a classic view mode so you can choose the new floating UI3 or not.

Without even know any of this, or seeing the new UI3, I decided to click the CLOSE button on this pop up. I can’t stand what Figma have been doing lately with terrible, new product releases.

Slides was an abomination. Half of the new Figma features they’ve dropped in the last 12 months are only specific to people who create complex phone apps or software programs for a living — not everyone else that uses Figma.

No idea what’s going on in their office but the decisions they make are clearly not in favour of the people that actually use Figma for a living — outside of Figma employees.

Ain’t no way I’m trying UI3, and when it drops I’ll be sticking with the current UI.

And these floating tiles are truly one of the most horrible things I’ve seen from any design software. Adobe included. And that’s saying something.

Figma going downhill fast in 2024 by trying to hard. Literally.

Update:

Despite me clicking NO to this option, it looks like Figma have already decided this for me and have defaulted my UI to UI3.

Not happy. And this looks terrible.

A post was merged into an existing topic: UI3 : Make Clip Content a checkbox again

I would like to add that with the new UI3.

1. Blend modes: You are hiding quite important features like blend modes. I really liked that it was more visible, as I use blend modes a lot to diversify and improve my experiences.

2. Interface Customisability: I guess we are the test subjects, but overall, what I miss is customisability in the interface – similar to what Adobe has in their tools. Where you can set up the structure of your interface to match your workflow and needs. To me, the new UI seems to match people who might only work on laptops, but I believe that most would be having Figma on a 27-inch screen or like and only do quick edits on a laptop if they are about to do a presentation and see a mistake somewhere. So please, work more on a customisable interface and maybe lock the interface on laptops and free them up on larger screens – or something like that. Also, as mentioned earlier, it would be amazing if you could separate pages from layers and have two columns instead of one. Generally, just allow customizability. I know that it is harsh to live with Adobe in the Figma world, but If Adobe did one thing right in their software then it is allowing users to customise the interface to match the needs of your workflow.

3. Height/Weight + Typography shaping settings: It is really annoying that you have moved the width and height. They look misplaced, so please reverse the layout area, get the height and width back above X/Y, and move the shape settings for typography back to the typography area. It’s a bit of a weird move.

4. Interface look’n’feel: Most importantly, users should be allowed to have the sidebars sticky to the side or floating as they are. Some might like this new style, but it really annoys me to the core.

After finally getting to design in UI3, I’m struggling to find a standout I like about this new UI, unfortunately. I share pretty much every critical sentiment that others have expressed thusfar, but here’s my personal feedback shortlist:

• Floating panels Like many others, I would love an option to have the floating gaplessly dock (or better yet just reverted) so they function as they did in UI2. I wanted to give UI3 floating panels the benefit of the doubt, but I find they make the UI more cluttered, draw more attention to themselves, and take up more space while somehow making the text even smaller. I’m also going to just call out this ruler view: One of these UX’s makes more sense.

• Clip content. Would love to see this change back to a single click behavior instead of the 2 click drop down (or you could even do a single click toggle).

• Lack of contrast in the UI in light mode - If nothing else, this should be addressed. This is mainly an issue in the right side panel. I am not against grey on grey, but as someone who stares at this tool all day, it’s harder on the eyes to read property values in UI3 over UI2 in light mode. I’d recommend changing all grey fills on the fields to white with grey strokes for light mode:

• hidden auto layout values. In UI2 I was able to, at a glance, see my pixel dimensions. I now have to mouse over the properties in the W/H boxes to see what my dimensions are. What was once a “no-mouse” action, now requires me to make two individual precise mouse-over movements, remember one field value at a time, returning to the mouse over in case I forget while trying to re-enter values. Also, This is such a small field that the cursor itself is enough to cover-up the information upon mouse-over. This one has no easy design-fix I can imagine. I simply prefer UI2 on this one. The new org of X/Y separate from W/H is nice, but I’d absolutely take being about to see my W/H values in auto layout over that separation:

• The new gradient icon this is a real nitpick but the designer in me can’t help myself. I can get used to this because the muscle memory is the same… but… one of these gradient icons makes more sense than the other…

• Lastly, one positive piece of feedback: I really like how this beta allows us to toggle instantaneously between UI2 and UI3. Serious kudos to Figma team in this execution. It makes comparing/learning this new/old interface soooo much easier and is hands down my favorite thing about this roll-out.

That brings me to my final piece of feedback: I would love if Figma made a “legacy UI2 mode” available (similar to how adobe allows for “use legacy menu” toggles on certain functions). Obviously I can see this being problematic to maintain in the longterm, but I’ll personally be rolling back to UI2 for as long as possible and would love to continue to do so if some of the issues on UI3 aren’t addressed. Happy to elaborate on any feedback. Thanks for taking the time to review.

I was going to tell this… im also like when UI getting newer look but this time its really hard to find tools and icons also. and mostly i dont like bottom toolbar at least if you guys using that floating tool bars give user to freedom to move it. Because im using bigger screen for UI work and i keep my inspiration and research work in upper section of screen and working on bottom … now we have toolbar on bottom thats too distracting and tis even floating … so its really annoying to work like that 8 hours on office work 😅

I was going through new UI but ultimately revert back to previous. Please if you are changing UI do it slowly like step by step versions … i really like what you did in dev mood introducing toggle … …thats a step by step change

I’m struggling with all the problems other users pointed out already. It looks like redesign was done by someone who never used Figma before… To make so many visual clutter on DESIGN app is just unacceptable.

!!! Please let me hide this bottom toolbar. I’ve never used them and I’m not planning to do so. Shortcuts for the win. So, let me hide this toolbar!