Dev mode pricing

In our organization, my team and I primarily use Figma for most of our design work. Figma’s licensing for designers is quite advantageous, as the tool is well-suited for a variety of tasks.

However, the licensing for developers seems excessive, almost as if it’s forcing developers to buy a license. This situation is causing many designers to consider switching to other tools like Penpot and Adobe XD.

Dear Figma team, please consider this feedback. Developers often do not need edit access for design files, they spend most of their time developing our apps with the CSS code you provide. Plugins and other features are often not utilized by developers. If the licensing continues to be enforced in this manner, we might have to consider switching to other products.

Therefore, it would be greatly appreciated if you could reconsider the pricing of the licenses or provide some options for developer mode access. Thank you. 😊

Figma has forgotten that this tool is built and promoted by the community especially designers. And now pricing is in a way that they are ripping off the same community promoted them. After 6+ years of working with Figma I’m ready to switch if there is a new player in the market and offers competitive pricing.

I also asked my frontend developer is she needs the dev mode - she said no and the same day we ran into problems because she could not copy the gradient css and some other minor inconvieniences. If dev seat was $5-10 I wouldn’t even think twice.

Figma enshittification

I’m really disappointed with Figma’s new pricing. It feels unfair to freelancers and small agencies like mine. I’ve recommended Figma for years, but now I’m looking into penpot and pixso. At first, Figma was great compared to Adobe, offering good performance and caring about its users. Sadly, the latest changes to your prices have been a big step backward, even worse than Adobe.

Engineers are not designers. They only need to ‘view’ the designs and code that was generated. That is like < 1% of the capability of Figma. We should NOT be paying the same subscription amount for engineers as we pay for a designer. Each designer supports about 15 engineers and to pay for 16 designer seats when in actuality, there’s only one designer is daylight robbery. Perhaps it is okay to pay $1 or $2 for adding an engineer for collaboration but it’s NOT okay to charge the same amount as for a designer.

Figma is easily worse than Adobe, because even they wouldn’t dare to put such anti-consumer practices to use.

These aren’t decisions made by leaders who want their product to prosper, but people who want to make as much money as fast as possible, consequences be damned - so what if they eventually destroy the brand? They made money, that’s all that matters.

Just like before Figma, it’s absolutely possible to change the status quo. There are plenty of competitors to it (Penpot and Pixso come to mind instantly), and just like Figma, one of the might eventually take over. I’ve only recently switched to Figma, and I have no problem jumping the ship again.

The tool is great, but it’s not worth constantly worrying about paying extra in such shady way for somebody who works on a lot of smaller projects.

Just want to express my disappointment about blocking the inspect feature behind a paywall. This is completely ridiculous.

I’m no designer, I’m not working with Figma. I just want to inspect an element our designer made - who already pays for Figma - to get its font size, color code, padding, etc.

We are on the Org Plan and working constantly with external developers. The current business model for Dev mode is impractical, expensive and time consuming.

Absolutely ridiculous. I am a contract designer who often works with a lot of different people and freelance developers, and also passion projects and hobby projects and so on. I need to be able share my designs with devs who don’t work in the same org as me, or just haphazardly, or for a bit of a project or one project and so on. This pricing model makes my workflow impossible to complete within the Figma ecosystem. It is basically forcing us to use other products.