Allow us to dock/move the new UI3 toolbar

+1 for moving the toolbar to the top / allowing for free dragging. I love the rest of the redesign tho

collapsible pages/layer panel is good. the right properties panel contrast (Photoshop ~2020 all over again), boxes, icons - literally stops you on your tracks. This is my second trial with about two days of non stop in the new UI. I couldn’t understand how to make auto width for a text box since it moved outside the text properties and is an icon pointing →. I kept on clicking resize to fit 🤦‍♂️ Went to tweak few photos > the dials are twice as big yet again no % values for the adjusters. Toolbox.

Why to have an App UI element which visually appears to be a floating toolbar, and then it’s fixed (why?) and beside this on the bottom (2x why?). There’s only one reason to place important menus like toolbars etc at the bottom: On mobile devices. Not that probable that we start designing on our phones, nope?

Funny you made the same mistakes like Microsoft in Teams (the taskbar was ALWAYS covering other important regions inside a presentation and fixed, finally & years after, they made it at least moveable). Another hero in this team was Adobe with their firefly toolbar, always wrong position and annoying while editing, too. But they also fixed this really soon in the beginning, making it drawable and even possible to pin to custom position.

But hey, you are the leader with UI Design development app like Figma. And you don’t do your own homework? That’s simply hilarious, really.

And one more question: Why use a floating bar for something essential and constantly needed (as long as people prefer clicking over using shortcuts, which is clearly a user preference that should be respected in app design)?

Would you design a system / OS main menubar as a dropdown just to use something different from the toolbox? Unbelievable, please fix this soon.

Please let us move it to the top or hide it with a shortcut.
This bar gets in the way of the design, sits in a super common position for the mac dock and windows menu triggering for the user with no intention and it doesn’t really hold much value other than staying on top of every design.

This need REWORK! It is a bad UX outcome but I bet with good intentions. This fixed inside canvas location is actually more distracting than the old UI where the full menu bar on top was outside the canvas. Most people on Macs have the Mac dock item at the bottom, it clearly interferes in close proximity. Allow either to position it to Top-Center, Top-Left, Top-Right, Bottom-Center, Bottom-Left, Bottom-Right or preferably anywhere floating on screen as a floating hide-able detachable bar/panel. Also if you want to make it more handy, I recommend some sort of key combo click which could access it anywhere on screen. I’ve used Maya in the past and it has one of the most efficient way to access menu items by hotbox marking menu implementation anywhere on screen. It really saves tons of time in 3D workflow when you don’t have to access 2-3 level depth menu items by navigating to fixed menus on top or elsewhere.

Yes! Most people here seem to want the toolbar top-center, but I’ve tested PenPot which has it located there and I thought it was just as distracting… maybe even more-so.

I was thinking that top-left would be ideal. I wasn’t even thinking about having it vertical, so thanks for mocking that up! I think it’s a great option!

Honestly, I think we just need freedom here - Give options for top-center, bottom center, top-left, bottom-left, top-right, bottom-right, and vertical or horizontal options.

Also, I’m sure most people use hotkeys and don’t even need a toolbar at all, so maybe have the option to hide it. Or think of a way to have a visual indication of what tool you’re currently on without the need of the entire toolbar.

Hi Guys… unfortunately I got your new toolbar UI update. PLEASE leave my workspace alone and don’t cover it with floating toolbar. This is such a bad UI implementation.

Any setting I can do to revert to the old, proven and “out of the way” original toolbar setting at the top of the screen?

Another vote for being able to move the toolbar!

I need the option to dock the toolbar at the top instead of the bottom. Most of my time is spent on the upper half of the screen. And (I realize this is very user-specific) my desk is arranged in such a way that the lower half of my large working display is sometimes partially obscured by my laptop display. So I’m having to shrink the size of the Figma window so I don’t loose track of the toolbar.

I’m switching to the old UI until forced to stay on the new one because of this change.

This is the biggest crime this UI commits. It’s change for the sake of change and I would love to see the quantitative and qualitative metrics used to justify this change. This is by far the biggest blocker to using the new UI.