New Dev Mode seat pricing is unacceptable, what do we do now?

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This new pricing model for Dev Mode $35/seat/month just to inspect already finished designs is so out of touch with reality, I have no words.

We have an enterprise Figma license and we capped Editor seats to a minimum because it’s hard to sell to C-level. This limits UX maturity and spread of Figma usage in product development across the whole org.

We have about 4x as much full-stack developers as we have designers, who OCCASIONALLY need to inspect designs. How the bleep are we supposed to sell those seats to C-level executives?

This is completely unrealistic and limits not only spread of Figma usage, but design-led product development in our org even more.

If we are to keep Figma, all of our designers are left with one option, to extensively micro-document each design for devs to read as a book. Losing huge chunk of our UX time.

What a self-destructing pricing strategy from Figma. What do we do now?

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Nikki3

New Participant

Agreed, BUT hasn’t that been cancelled or put on hold as they were in dispute…ironically over costs 🙈

Amy20

New Member

Oh I missed that! Good news!

Nick_Hogendoorn

Wow, I had no idea they were absolutely killing the classic inspect mode. They wrote in the e-mail about this topic that the classic inspect mode would remain active without extra costs, but if this is its form then I am really disappointed and unhappy with this product now.

ashayhin

i where also surprised that it is so expensive =(

Alexey_Loginov

New Member

And there’s also Pixso which is a Figma clone. Inspector is free there. Should we consider dropping Figma and moving to Pixso?

kdanielyan

New Member

it’s even more expensive than a dev’s IDE. wait what?

Pav

that breaks my heart.

I’ve been an avid Figma advocate for years, and now I feel like a fool.

OG_Can

Active Member

Just had a notice from my CEO that the product team will have a meeting on Monday to discuss what to do about the tool. I am afraid they will ask for software change…

Bravo @Figma_Moderation . Amazing example of how not to do it.