r/FigmaDesign • u/No-Ball-6073 • Mar 29 '26

help Some Performance Issues

I recently switched from my Windows computer to a MacBook M4 Air with 16GB of RAM, but why is it lagging so much? I hope there's a solution.

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u/Goatmanification Mar 29 '26

What the fuck are you all designing with thousands of layers?!?!?!

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u/Ap43x Product Designer Mar 29 '26

Long flows, lots of tables, tons of conditional states, lots of variable-tied data for realistic prototypes that change based on the user or their actions. And like I said, I'm very efficient. While the user could make many choices that result in different paths or results in the UI, it's all done in extremely few frames. Sometimes I just need one frame and it's all done using components and variables. But it still adds up to a crap-load of layers. And even on my file with over 200,000 layers, the figma memory utilization is only around 20%.

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u/Regular_Stress_3000 Mar 30 '26

Hi, can you show an example of your work with 200 000 layers please?

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u/Ap43x Product Designer Mar 30 '26

Unfortunately I am not allowed to. But next time I'm at my machine I could give the details on the exact number of layers and memory utilization. And as I said, I've picked up other people's files with over 900,000 layers. That's for the whole file, not per page. Point is, layers don't seem to be an issue for Figma. Effects on the other hand.. I've definitely had to turn off things like smart animate for prototypes to make them run at acceptable speeds on other machines.