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Your software is a masterclass in how not to design an interface.

I click one element, perform an action, then click another element to do the exact same thing, and the entire layout collapses.

There is no way to diagnose what happened because your options auto-hide. There is no feedback, or clarity. Nothing but broken workflows.

Stop trying to be clever. Stop chasing some illusion of minimalism that serves literally ZERO purpose.

Hire developers who understand what predictable, reliable interfaces look like. For three decades, core UX standards have guided every serious design tool on the market. Your team ignored all of it and delivered a product that feels like fighting a shopping cart with a broken front wheel.

You bury essential tools under layers of useless clicks while plastering non-critical stuff front and center. It is mind boggling.

And your documentation is as useless as your interface. Answers are vague or incomplete. There’s no explanation as to WHY something does what it does - only that it does it.

 

And then there is the mask system. Whoever decided that masks should live behind the object they are masking clearly never used a serious design program in their life.

Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Affinity Designer. Every single one uses the opposite structure for a reason. But no, in your world, the mask goes in the back. Bravo! You have redefined counterintuitive.

As a matter of fact, this Halloween, I want you to put the mask behind your head and explain to everyone else how wrong they are about the concepts of masks. Good thing I’m not a bank robber with that philosophy.
 

The only reason people tolerate this mess is because Figma is popular. That is it. Popularity. Nothing else.

And the worst part about it is this;

Client:  “Hey! Can we use Figma?”

Me: “We could, but it sucks.”

Client: “Ya, but I heard it’s popular!

 Me: “It is, but trust me… It REALLY sucks.”

 

Me: “Have you ever pushed a shopping cart around with a broken front wheel?”

Client: “Ya...”

Me: “Well, that’s what is feels like to use Figma:”

Client: “Oh.”

Me: “Ya.”

 

Client: “Well, I want us to use Figma...”

Me: “FML...”

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