LAUNCHED: Fixed panels are back!

Agreed - they looked great on the pre release as a concept but in reality they’re a waste of space, with the exception of the tool bar at the bottom.

The only way this would make sense is if the panels were dynamic in some way - either shrinking or skewing perspective to save space when not in use and becoming active when you hover/move toward them…?

Something like the Mac OS dock hiding 👌

UI3’s floating panels feel like an attack on my workflows. I want Figma’s UI to be as compact and dense as possible, allowing my work to take up the rest of the space. I’ve already reverted to the old UI, but encourage you to adjust these floating sidepanels before rolling this out to everyone.

The new floating panels waste so much design space, the gaps between them and the edge of the screen are now wasted…

Hey All, thanks for the feedback and apologies for the frustration!

This is already on the UI3 team’s radar for improvement - stay tuned!

Respectfully adding my vote here. I’m not sure if there was a practical reason for it, but I agree with @Alan_Bauchop’s points. I find it adds visual noise / distraction at the periphery of my vision as I work on the canvas.

+1 to this, or allow the users to snap it in place.

+1

• Removing the padding feels like a no brainer.
• Gray font on gray boxes reduces contrast (this is no longer even WCAG level-AA conformant - this deserves a separate post)
• And are we using a smaller fonts to make up for that added padding?

New is always tough so I’m prepared to sit with things for a bit and hope this feels better soon but, on first impressions this visual update legitimately hurts my eyes.

I don’t get it why do we need that padding around panels? It’s a copy of Spline which is also bad.

I run dark mode for the UI but the background of my canvas is bright due to reasons - this makes the gap stand out so much that I quickly reverted to old UI. Its unbearable.

I don’t know that I would want such a feature.

but with the new floating panel, my instinctive movement was to try messing with them, what if I wish to be half the size of one, move it around, hide one but keep the other?
it looks like they can do wild things.

but they kind of don’t so it is a weird UI choice…