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Figma
Raised as a usability problem by 91 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 72 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Tools are hard to find in a confusing interfaceUnreviewed
20172026- Figma MCP is nearly unusable for the person trying to use it2026-11-03
- Figma designs are hard to translate faithfully into web code, so intent gets lost2026-04-18
- Managing state manually in Figma is annoying and tedious2025-05-06
Constant zooming and scrolling needed to find anythingUnreviewed
20172026- Components spread across a huge canvas force constant zooming and scrolling2023-06-21
- Constant zooming and scrolling to find anything on the infinite canvas2023-06-21
- Canvas feels loose and slippery; hard to keep a view constrained when many pieces are spread out2022-09-15
Loading takes too long, and switching tabs freezes ChromeUnreviewed
20172026- Figma has become very slow, and version history takes forever to load2025-07-31
- Browser tab locks up for seconds when Figma opens, making the browser unresponsive2023-08-30
- Loading takes too long, and switching to a Figma tab freezes Chrome2020-10-28
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 50 complaints
- Figma MCP is nearly unusable for the person trying to use it2026-11-03
- Numpad suddenly behaves differently after hitting keys, with no clear way to understand why2026-10-26
- Browser version felt awful to use and unreliable with keyboard shortcuts2026-05-21
- Text is hard to read on phone and desktop due to squished font and poor contrast2026-04-20
- Students get rejected or hit confusing errors during education account verification2026-04-18
- Figma designs are hard to translate faithfully into web code, so intent gets lost2026-04-18
- Simple tasks require navigating through multiple menus; steep learning curve for new users2026-02-06
- Performance is slow when documents contain hundreds of screens2025-11-27
- Designers have normalised abhorrent design, so they fail to recognise genuinely bad UX2025-11-27
- "Open app" button forces sign-up with terms instead of opening the app2025-10-01
- Its own interface is full of amateur-level mistakes, inconsistencies and bad patterns2025-08-19
- Figma has become very slow, and version history takes forever to load2025-07-31
- UI has amateur mistakes, inconsistencies and bad patterns that designers copy2025-07-31
- Bad user interface and app has grown progressively slower over the years2025-07-31
- Interface lacks affordances, so users can't tell how to interact with it2025-07-09
- Variables tab stutters and freezes, long variable lists hard to view or edit2025-07-07
- Prototyping flows with cross-element interactions becomes variable hell or impossible2025-07-02
- UI churn confuses long-time users; simple tasks have become complex2025-07-02
- Browsing long file histories is inefficient and the VCS UI is cramped into a narrow sidebar2025-07-02
- Offline feature doesn't work properly, so documents are unavailable without connection2025-06-02
- Product has become bloated and confusing with too many options2025-05-09
- Managing state manually in Figma is annoying and tedious2025-05-06
- New interface is a regression; performance has become worse2025-04-16
- Custom stylized cursor is off-putting and interferes with normal pointer use2025-04-16
- Moving objects is laggy, and keyboard shortcuts sometimes fail or stick.2025-02-11
- Feedback comments are mostly hidden and hard for reviewers to follow up on or reference2025-02-09
- Figma normalises bad UX, UI and product management, according to the commenter2025-02-08
- Figma's interface is confusing and tools are hard to find2025-01-23
- Credit spent but no illustration appears, and the user can't tell where it went2024-12-19
- Selecting a component means double-clicking through many nested groups, then editing properties in a textual form2024-11-11
- Generated CSS is not useful and below the quality needed for real applications2024-11-11
- Designs mocked up in Figma get pasted in corrupted, so mockups don't match real output2024-07-26
- Pixel-perfect designs are very fiddly to make and must be manually replicated in code2024-07-25
- Designs built in Figma break when real clients or window sizes change layout2024-07-24
- Laggy to interact with and the interface is not good2024-07-24
- Adds monthly users without clear indication, and admins struggle to find where to remove them2024-07-11
- Hard to find the right design file among many2024-06-26
- IPad Figma app is view-only, forcing use of a worse web version2024-05-25
- Navigation lags badly and the marker updates about 2 frames per second, making drawing unusable2024-05-01
- Can't reliably link someone to a specific view2024-04-15
- Feels slow and very poor to use as a web app2024-02-23
- Complex UI elements with text paste as unusable SVG into other apps2023-12-01
- UI text is so small the user must move closer to read it, ignoring system zoom2023-12-01
- Copying objects from Figma often pastes nothing or only text into other apps2023-11-30
- Many features are very unintuitive to use2023-11-24
- Drawing lines on an empty FigJam file visibly lags, even on a powerful machine2023-08-31
- Opening a file takes about a minute to load, even on fast internet2023-08-31
- Confusing teams vs projects makes granting access to team files hard2023-08-30
- Browser tab locks up for seconds when Figma opens, making the browser unresponsive2023-08-30
- Shared files can't be found or browsed, so users must bookmark the link2023-08-23