UI3 Feedback

Hey Figma, Not really feeling the white panels and white tabs up top (I must caveat that I usually prefer white platform UX/UI) . I’m finding it very hard to read I think because the outlines of all the fonts and icons on side panels are too thin. It looked much better before, looked like higher quality (it looks a bit cheap now) and was not hard to read. I’m not sure why Figma would make us re-learn the placement of everything in the side panels for no reason. It seems to function the same but different, and doesn’t particularly seem more organized, just different, hence a learning curve for no reason, just making my job harder. Not happy with it functionally or aesthetically, I like the old one.

I just wanted to say thank you for the new UI - maybe it’s not perfect, but it does feel refreshing, and I think that feeling fresh is part of a good experience! It’s funny to see so many complaints about a re-design when we’re all (mostly) interested in constantly pushing evolving our own products and experiences. If you’re not interested in seeing the Figma UI evolve, then I hope you’re empathetic to users and customers who might feel similar about your own product. (And who needs a designer if the experience never needs to change 😬…)

Whose idea was it to display the width and height values on hover? 🤦

Options(Variant)under the right panel are all over the place. Overall UI is not an improvement. Added new features might be enhancement but not UI.

Yes, thank you for commenting this! Very helpful!

I have been using Figma for over 5 years as well. But I have never seen such horror. This is the WORST update! I spend time looking for FEATURES, not CLIENT WORK! The last straw was when I couldn’t find rounded corners. ROUNDED CORNERS. WHERE ARE YOU? BLINK IF YOU ARE IN SOME DROPDOWN!

I agree, it’s really bad. I was really confident with autolayout and everything and now I feel like I am not able to too the simplest easiest things here. New UI sucks. Where is the old simple super intuitive Figma. I bet it’s because of Adobe. They are experts on creating really really not intuitive UI.

There is absolutely nothing to love. As an experienced developer and educated in HCI, I believe this application takes the prize for the worse. After 4 hours of evaluating, I must say it’s number 1 for the worst application I have used in 10 years—absolutely crap. Hint for the developers: HCI is a genuine academic discipline everyone observes.

Worst part about the component properties panel moving to the top right for me is that they had to hide nested properties because otherwise all the other tools would be off screen if you select a complex component. 🤦‍♂️

UI2 has some small issues, like having to hover over things to be able to see/assign variables, the fact that the boolean variable is assigned by right-clicking the layer visibility icon, or the slightly confusing max-width and min-width interface.

But overall UI2 is an efficient use of space and a fairly logical layout.

Stuff will move down in your right hand toolbar when you select a component or an instance, but at least the main information about your Selection is always at the top right, and everything below that is usuall pretty secondary and easily scrolled to.

I don’t know if the original designer(s) left or were promoted to management, but kudos to whoever worked on UI2. When I switched from Sketch to Figma I took maybe a week to get up to speed and start producing layouts and deliverables

When I switched from UI2 to UI3 I just got stuck. I am a senior designer and I teach juniors how we use Figma… I even taught a Figma class for UX designers…