Dev mode pricing

You know, I’d actually be ok with the price increase if the original inspect tab was unchanged, but now developers without the designer seat cannot even inspect all the properties of elements.

What the f were they thinking?

This is why everybody is up in arms. There was a basic free mode, it was called the Inspect Panel, which they removed when dev mode became a paid feature.

Please be careful what you wish for. I understand your intentions are honable being willing to pay for a seat.

But here’s what’s really happening. In order for a developer to gain access to dev mode on one of your files, they have to be within your organization. Meaning freelance developers that work with multiple design agencies, need to be a part of all of those organizations, in order to access dev mode.

So even if a Freelance Developer pays for their own Figma account, they will not be able to access Dev Mode from a file that comes from an agency.

Figma expects multiple agencies to pay for that same Freelance Developer to be in their organization. That means Figma is Double, Triple, Endless dipping on that same single developer. This is borderline criminal.

Again, I understand your intentions are pure. But even still, your method results in unjust business practices for Figma.

Dev Mode should work with freelancers, full stop, period. If I Own the file, and I have a paid account, dev mode should be available to any freelancer I share the file with. I’d be willing to pay Extra for My design account to enable dev mode to all developers I work with, but Having to pay for all freelancers to be a part of my organization, and then other companies have to pay again for those same freelancers. This is a total Scam.

Just so you all know - This scam is well documented here: Reddit - Dive into anything

A freelance Developer paying for their own professional account does not give them access to dev mode. The developer must be a part of the organization who owns the Figma file.

Meaning that same developer, must be paid for by each and every agency that works with him. This is called double dipping, and is absolutely a scam.

These are complete 🍌 🍌 🍌 -s from the Figma team.

I can’t believe that profit always needs to be in the first place, no matter how stupid decisions are, if it’s profitable that’s OK.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind profit.

To explain why this is a ridiculous idea. We are company that use just our freelance developers network of 5-10 developers, in future that will be even more. Part of the industry goes in a direction where the cooperation of freelancers makes a team.
Why I need to pay for seats of all the developers that work with our designers instead that developers pay for their licence and be able to be invited in multiple teams.

This is stupid, except if money is the only motivator behind the idea.
And if it is, there will be a new company that will see an opportunity in a better model and give people what they want.

This thread is hilarious. The funniest comments are “Adobe is to blame”.

What did you expect? Figma stores god only knows how much data indefinitely, and every manipulation inside the app is server processing time. None of that is free. Someone so far had been paying that huge bill, in the hopes of Adobe coming in and paying billions.

Now that the deal is off, they no longer see the point in financing that little communist experiment, and they want their money back.

But Figma pricing is greater than almost every one of our other tools combined. So relatively speaking, something is far, far off. If hosting is really a concern, then they should provide a free or minimally priced, self-hosted version.

What I expected? I expected they to not waste time and money creating dev mode if it is so expensive and aggregates so little.

As tech chief I can say, we would spend (better to say invest) many times more, would it aggregate value for its price, but tools like copilot, miro, and etc do a much better job finding a good ratio, so, we move budget somewhere else.

You know what is curious? Figma probably is one of the most expensive per set services our company uses, but is in the list of smallest monthly cost we have.

We use Figma in a large company where one ux designer serves around 10 developer. As a developer seat costs half a design seat we would quintuple our costs. This is Ridiculous and even more a developer pays for a ide seat. We will take this into account in our design tool strategy

I have always been a Figma advocate. I love the tool, the marketing, everything. But I can’t understand this move that is so out of touch with the needs of the users.

I am on a pro plan. I need to give access to devs from an external agency to my designs. Their need is only to inspect, they don’t need to edit, in fact, they should not be able to edit.

We work with external agencies as well that are responsible for their designs, and a different agency for development. How can I ask the design company to pay for an editor seat, and give access to the design to a third company?

If devs were to pay, it should be up to their employer, and it should work similarly to slack connect. Similarly to slack, we should be able to give basic inspect functions to dev, without extra cost. If a dev wants to have more features, then it should be up to them subscribe to a specific plan (a dev plan, not a design plan…).

Same as others, I am considering for first time in several years to move to another tool. This change is a sign of the company’s changing policy.

Looks like I am not the only one to consider changing.

Please Figma, show that you still listen to your users and reconsider this.