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Amirhosein_Imeni
New Member
February 6, 2024
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Require permission for Dev mode full seat on team❕

  • February 6, 2024
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There is a problem since the dev mode is out of free mode for permitting developers on Figma. When I give the dev mode permission to them they can also edit the project; I don’t want this. Developers can easily mess up design. On the other hand, we have all kinds of access on the Figma team management page like team permission, design seat and FigJam seat.
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If Figma adds a new permission like dev mode seat it’s a better way to manage developers instead of giving each of them both edit access and dev mode access.

Also, in the project sharing popup, “can access to dev mode” needs to be added.
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30 replies

Jonathan_van_der_Maas
March 26, 2024

This is a very big problem within our team. For now all developers can’t use dev mode because some designs already got messed up. Our developers need dev mode to work productively, but they don’t want edit rights because they’re afraid they’ll mess up the designs.

Hope Figma will fix this big issue quick!

Julia_Mnizhek
Active Member
March 26, 2024

+1
We’re facing the same issue with our Organization plan. We don’t want our developers to be able to edit design files.

dennsi
Active Member
March 27, 2024


@Figma

Ognjen_Odobasic1
New Participant
March 29, 2024

No official answer? Figma is dead?

Gabriel_Mejia
April 2, 2024

I think they are pushing Organization/Enterprise sales… they want the money… that’s why … Even if Adobe didn’t finish the Figma acquisition, they are becoming like them… sadly

Ash_Bryant
New Member
April 19, 2024

I’m a freelancer and I’ve just moved to Figma from using Adobe XD (a long transition period), I’ve just run into this madness.

How can allowing a developer to just look at font sizes etc warrant a massive increase in price on my behalf?

It also leads to a massive pain in the ass of having to try and explain why I need to charge it to my client. Not to mention, if they do agree, I then have to do billing admin every month to allow different clients to work from my designs.

This is crazy. Even Adobe allowed this feature for free in XD.

June 22, 2024

Blatant highway robbery and should be illegal. Most atrocious billing method ever. Why in the hell should dev mode be linked with a design seat. My devs never design. My designers never dev. Absurdity at it’s finest.

Stefan_Schoeman
New Member
July 19, 2024

I work as part of a product design team and as a wider organisation we would love to see the dev teams (the bulk of the organisation) use dev mode to help them and enhance team collaboration.

Unfortunately dev mode is only available as part of th editor access which is very counter intuitive as most devs don’t edit designs. The issue then becomes that the full editor pricing becomes prohibitive and busines pushes back against a full license fee for a single feature.

I think it would be amazing if you could bring out a Dev Mode only license option at like $4.99 or something which can then be assigned to team members on the implementation side.

This will greatly increase the likelihood of adoption by the broader team and enhance collaboration with less business push back because of prohibitively high costs.

dennsi
Active Member
August 28, 2024

Figma has not adressed this madness at all. Crazy.

stefan_pheiffer
September 26, 2024

Money money money… #devmodefeesmustfall