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>>imslav+(OP)
Figma is anything but fast. Whenever I need to open a file it takes a minute to load on my half a gigabit connection. It's strange how much people are willing to put up with slow software nowadays.

>>perryi+P12
How fast is it after opening the file? I’d imagine there are trade-offs being made where some aspect of performance are sacrificed to improve others but I haven’t used Figma (sadly, it looks really nice)

>>agrace+r22
It does pretty well after the initial loading. But the loading is excruciating for me because I need to open different files again and again throughout the day, and it takes the same amount of time to load every file every time.

>>perryi+o82
(author of the article)

I want to acknowledge that the load-times for Figma go up linearly with the complexity of your design file + its dependencies. It is always painful when users rightfully complain about giant design files taking a while to load and fully render.

The team is working on changing that so hopefully your experience gets better over time.

This is not my area of expertise, so I am not in the position to promise anything on this forum but I just want to say that the testing framework described in the article is also used to continuously test and measure the file load/parsing time as folks are working towards algorithmic improvements.