There are a lot of WONDERFUL features in Figma, including the new ones! It’s amazing!

Lately, Figma has been slow. And getting slower. Bugs are more frequent.

Even with a very small file (one page and a dozen screens) the file loads slow (not a huge issue), but the Prototyping is even slower. I have hover states on my buttons, and there’s about a 500ms delay for when they show up. I can’t run usability tests where it works that poorly. It would make most of my data useless.

I tried various things to speed it up:

• Removing Hover States


• Removing Smart Animate


• Simply other aspects of variant-prototype interactions

Still it’s slow. My impression is that, due to the lifecycle of Figma, we’re at the stage where feature bloat begins (have to have something new and sexy to make investors happy), features get locked behind different plans (like FigJam and Dev mode, but this one makes sense to me), and stability and speed suffers.

I’m likely wrong as to the reasons (and definitely incomplete), but is there any way you could focus on the Speed and Stability of Figma? Please lend your votes to increase visibility.