Add Dev Mode To Professional Subscription separately from design seat

Really stupid idea to have dev mode on a design seat with full access and like the rest of the comments here an unnecessary additional price to an already expensive subscription. I work in a small team and there’s no way any of the developers need this kind of access to the design.

We are having the same problem here, for now we gave editors seat for developers, but this is not scalable for small companies. I thing a dev-seat should be created, not as expensive as editor seat, of course.

How long will we need to wait for this to be fixed? The funny thing it says an extra $12/seat for dev-mode but then charges $15 as a regular designer seat

15$ apply if you add the seat on a monthly basis instead of annual.

+1 costs are one thing, but giving developers edition rights make me a little concerned. The chances of making changes by mistake are quite high.

+1 This needs to be fixed!

Agreed - costs is a different conversation. At least in my case, I’m not here to judge Figma on their pricing ideas but on their UX decisions – and yeah, needing to give the whole dev team design rights to access development features is bad UX if you ask me…

Hey! There is a solution to this

For Devs, you need to Set Can view in the team permission column
and Design seats - Full

then the developer can’t edit the design file. they have only view and dev mode access

Interesting… Still, I think it is more a workaround instead of a solution since it works on team basis and not just file based. You won’t be able to assign people as an Admin with view-only rights or still let them be able to create, move and rename projects, files etc.
Not sure if password protected files can still be accessed (without a password).

(In my case a coworker is a Developer as well as an Admin who needs to be able to manage the Figma Team when I am not around)

I find the pricing confusing already and this just adds more complexity! Us freelance designers just want to share the file - uneditable and view only – but with Dev Mode access, why is this so difficult? Is anyone at Figma going to answer this soon?