UI3 Feedback

I agree, I preferred the older UI not only for the lack of being able to reoganize and snap things to the sides, but because a lot of things moved out of sight and take precious minutes to find- even when I know they have moved, my brain is struggling with the lack fo visibility on many tools, which have been nested into tiny areas. I would rather be able to collapse things I don’t need than have everything collapsed and not expandable to be always visible. (for example, the masking button, and things like Union, Subtract, etc boolean states.)

Please consider reverting to the older thinking of having everything easily accessible. I know the hot new trend is to have things as minimalist as possible but it hurts usability and accessibility, imo.

There is already a lot of necessary commentary here that is critical of the new UI so I won’t repeat much. But I agree, as it’s inefficient, cumbersome, and completely antithetical to getting work done (plus the irony of “Clearing the stage for your work” when it is literally on top of the work). These changes must not go though (or let us disable it indefintiely).

Figma, I beg you to listen and fix the issues detailed in this thread before forcing everybody to use the new UI.

Figma really should listen to all this honest feedback.
I think they rushed it to get it (at least visually) ready for Config 2024.
But UI3 is simply not good, not well tested, not crafted with proper UX of actual users in mind. And it should be the absolute basic UX 1x1 that you simply don’t hide important information or actions from users and require them more clicks especially for labor intensive tasks.

I’m honestly flabbergasted that Figma did so many things wrong here.
Hiding width and height values, hiding Clip Content Checkbox, readability problems / color contrast issues, moving the toolbar to the bottom (why???), inefficient real estate with unnecessary paddings of panels, no dockable panels, … just to name a few that have already been mentioned here.

Did they focus too much on the visual presentation for Config?
I really hope they rework this based on the user feedback.
Please take your time Figma and let us reuse UI2 until then.

Extremely inconvenient !!!

I agree with all that you have said. It’s not a well-thought-out experience. From what we have heard from the keynote, they tested themself which is not what designers do, designers need to test designs with real users and not be biased about it.

Horrible. The floating side panels are making me uncomfortable. I hope they add an option to choose the old theme, like in VS Code or other coding editors.

I use Figma every day in my professional work and I have to say that new UI completely ruined my flow. Mamy features changed their position and now I have to spend time to look for them in the interface. Icons for settings or properties also changed so I can no longer easily spot them in this “redesigned”, cluttered space.
Visual hierarchy went terribly down.

Saying that new UI is a tragedy is like not saying anything at all.

Make Figma Useful Again!

This work is example the worst UX ever. It seems strange to me especisaly when you deliver tools for the designers. How could this happen? They don’t have UX designers on staff? Why do we see such strange solutions. I have almost no idea why they do to anything they’ve done. Just questions. And the most important question is why?

I really disliked it when Adobe started adding contextual menus right in the middle of the workspace, but you can turn those off. I want an unimpeded area to work, I really don’t like the toolbar being at the bottom in the middle. It is irritating and in the way. I harldy use the toolbar, usually keyboard shortcuts, so it’s feels in the way.

Also I am neurodivergent and I find the bits of designs leaking out between the edge of the toolbars and the edge of the tool very distracting. This is an accessibility thing. What purpose does it serve? You can’t move the toolbars away from the edge, which is what this implies, There is no point to it except for some aesthetic reason, which isn’t a reason to do something IMO. 🙂