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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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Harald_Skogland
Active Member
November 6, 2024

The new UI makes me feel… claustrophobic.

Valeriy2
November 6, 2024

I went back to the “old” UI and I’m happy now.

Bruno_Charters
November 6, 2024

Component Search [Shift + I] is impacting my workflow negatively compared to before UI 3

Hello folks at Figma and Figma Community!

Since the implementation of UI I’ve consistently ran into a frustration in my workflow that hasn’t happened in the past. I tried to work around it but it really slows me down with the amount of times I use it.

Everytime I do a component search using “shift + I” and then drag and drop the component I want to use, it keeps the component search open and covering the screen. I then have to double click out of the component search or click on the “Actions” icon on the bottom to close this and go on with my work.

This adds unnecessary steps compared to before. My desired behavior is that upon dragging the component in, the component search / actions floating window would close automagically.

Pretty please update this asap 🙏

Boyan_Grigorov
New Participant
November 7, 2024

To my previous thread of show/hide UI. After using UI3 for a while here if great workable solution. Best will be to give us these 3 options

Command + \ - Hide Design panel UI only
Shirt + \ - Hide Left side (Layers) UI only
Command + Shift + \ - Hide all UI

and may be a bonus
\ - hides the toolbar in the middle of the screen

Those 3 shortcuts should work at all times, and not like currently show/hide layers (left side) UI is only available with the floating menu but not available when both UI sides are docked - Rush change, really annoying - makes me click twice 1. go to floating mode first, then 2. hide layers (left side) UI. Why complicating it?

Gala
New Member
November 7, 2024

Absolute garbage. I went back to the old UI, and I’ll switch to an update when Figma comes back to their senses.

Unchained_Experience
November 7, 2024

The layers panel can be vertically resized, have you tried that?

Unchained_Experience
November 7, 2024

If you use Figma in a browser, such as Chrome, Firefox or Edge, you can use the Stylus extension to force CSS changes and customize the UI. That allows us to hide the toolbar, for example.

I’ve created a short tutorial (2 minutes) on how to do just that:

Hide Toolbar in Figma UI3 | Chrome & Firefox|Hide Toolbar in Figma UI3 | Chrome & Firefox
dau.design.studio
New Member
November 8, 2024

No one should be looking for 3rd party workarounds, Figma should listen its users instead of management unaware of design processes. The design community is stuck.

flauridsen
New Participant
November 13, 2024

I feel like anything to do with components, variants and properties have been hidden well and truly away with tiny icons.

Took me forever to realize that properties have been lumped together with variables and it now take several additional clicks to create a new property in a component. It was so simple before and feels a lot less intuitive in UI3.

Robin_Clymans
November 18, 2024

Absolutely hate it. I just started and the older version that most tutorials use looks way more intuitive to use. Now it’s just menu within menu within menu… Might as well just go back to Adobe.