Add Dev Mode To Professional Subscription separately from design seat

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February 2, 2024
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I am outraged. How do you imagine I allow all my devs to be full-seats and give them the ability to edit designs? How about design ownership? In a day all devs lost their inspect tool, and the only way to get it back is to move to Org Plan or give them a full seat risking to get full chaos in design ownership. Any suggestions on how your teams ar planning to overcome this?

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Rogie_King

Designer Advocate

David, appreciate you sharing specifics with me on what is making this a downgraded experience. Super helpful to bring feedback to the team. Working on that now! Let me know if there’s any other things you have feedback on.

Rafastesia

With that and the box model view I think there would be less complaints 🙏

Joseph_Barbier

Appreciate the work you all are doing to support the Figma community. Regardless of what decisions come on this, grateful for your role in giving Figma users a voice and seat at the table. 🙂 Best!

JeniaAuthor

Appreciate your responses! Looking deeper into it, I see that we have more options now. At the beginning that felt painful.

Nicsm

+1.

Posting my experience to share more cases about the same issue:

I’m the one designer on a 5 person team, rest of the team is developers.

We’ve all agreed having edit-rights makes no sense as it is easy for developers to edit things by mistake, but Dev Mode is tied to “Full file access” which means the development team has to get edit rights in Design mode to use Dev Mode… Which hardly makes sense.

This has created an additional design task: I tend to check our relevant files’ history logs for changes every morning and afternoon to make sure things are still where they are supposed to be.

To be honest, It’s taking so much time and peace of mind away that I’m considering just turning the seats back to “View only” and leave annotations as comments, as I was doing before.

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Shanak_Rahman

+1 our developers do not need or want full edit access. Figma please solve this!!

Derek_Jones

Figma - CAN YOU PLEASE give the ability to disable Edit access for Developers using Dev Mode on the Professional Pricing Tier - This is causing major problems with erroneous changes to design files. My team is seriously looking at alternatives like PenPot.

Kimberlin_Viado

+1 on this! please add dev mode seats to professional plan. I am currently struggling with this since i work as a freelance and i work with various developer right now. I can’t give my own Figma acc just for them to use the dev mode feature!!!