Figma changing UI3 panels to not be floating seems like a good decision based on the beta feedback aka everyone hating on it
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But did UI3 actually solve anything for the user? I cant honestly say i saw any improvements. What the editor needed was enhancements. What they shipped was a re-organization of elements.
@jedmund had some good insight on this while back as someone who has worked at Figma/worked with the teams there.. It was a good reminder to me how not everything is how it seems from the outside
I'll also say as someone on a consumer team now (was enterprise/B2B in the past) that I wish the people I designed for knew what we have to deal with internally but.. there's reasons for that lol
Of course they are. But they aren’t telling us what those are for sure. We just the packaged PR hehe.
Why things change is rarely something that can immediately be communicated to users. It might be to enable a new feature but the feature might still be under development. It might be to solve a lower-level, more conceptual problem like engagement being low.
