LAUNCHED: Fixed panels are back!

Agreed 100%.

One of my biggest gripes is getting distracted with movement in the corner of my vision every time I move the canvas around, just because it looks cool to have “floating” panels.

I’m unsure why we need both floating panels on the left and right. The scroll bars are currently overlapping the UI, particularly noticeable in the right panel. It would be beneficial to allow users to choose between floating or non-floating panels. Placing the scroll bar within the side gap of the right panel would prevent it from overlapping with components. Additionally, the vertical ruler is positioned too far from the artboards, requiring users to drag it over the left side panel, which is inconvenient for me.

The gaps could also trigger events for neurodivergent users as the parts of the UI flash in the gaps when scrolling the artboards.

Thanks for the feedback, @Mike_Hone!

This is already on the UI3 team’s radar for improvement.

+1 to this. It’s visually noisy and it wastes space.

Immediately spent 20 minutes trying to find a way to turn it off.

+1 to this too - thank you.

This is incredibly distracting and is wasted space - please remove the gaps and fix them to the edges.

Agreed, the floating panels are very annoying and aren’t saving any space either. There is an annoying padding where design work peaks through and takes more time to work out where the edges are. The sticky panels on the left and right where much more inline with efficient complex application based UI which is what is required here (in my view). Also having the main controls on the bottom while the tab bar to navigate between files is on the top. I have found the need to continually move my eyes and cursor between the top and bottom of the window, whereas before all the controls and navigation where at the top in one place. After a day of trying the beta I’m moving back to the one UI. I also don’t see need for rounded corners either in this instance, it seems Figma are trying to unify the FigJam and Figma UIs, but I much prefer the efficient use of space and more concise UI in the previous version.

Totally agree. Additionally hiding/showing rulers makes the whole ui move. toolbar should be movable or you should be able to choose if you want it at the bottom or top.

Agree !!! We’re designing on webapp not mobile. This version is totally a copy of Webflow canvas.
Floating edge, space, these are really annoying and time-consuming. Please revert the old version

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Just left feedback about this too. Terrible. Navigating layers was already fiddly with my screen size (I’m using a laptop), now even less screen real estate for my panels, and a bonus distraction with the edges flashing small bits of my designs as I pan around. Super distracting and feels like design for the sake of a redesign.