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abelhancock
January 26, 2021

Content Editor Role

  • January 26, 2021
  • 24 replies
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The Problem:
Collaborating with stakeholders often requires many content updates & iterations (text, image, etc). I think most content writers/stakeholders could easily make these updates but would require editor access, giving them unneeded (& often unwanted) edit permissions.

Suggested Solution:
Provide a Content Editor role in Figma that allows a user to:

  • Update text layers
  • Update image fills
  • Anything else?

Additional features could include:

  • Editor can lock/unlock editability of content per layer
  • Ability to suggest/accept changes (similar to google docs?)
  • Assign content to users for editing?

Any other ideas on how this role could work?

24 replies

Haru1
New Member
July 12, 2024

Adding a post so this thread doesn’t die. Definitely need the editor role.

Chris_Wells
July 15, 2024

Came here to say the exact same thing. This is basically Adobe InCopy for Figma and it would be incredibly helpful to offer to colleagues who are hot professional designers or comfortable with using full Figma.

An update would be excellent.

Leor_Melamedov
October 9, 2024

This is such an important functionality that I feel is sorely missing. It’s much easier to improve copy when you can instantly visualize it. Adding comments is just not the same. At the same time, I don’t want to mess up the mockup.

I see this idea was first suggested 3.5 years ago, and people keep asking for it. Maybe I’m wrong but it doesn’t seem like this feature should be terribly difficult to develop.

Chris140
New Member
November 10, 2025

Agree - content writers do a pass on all our design, but only spend a small % of the time we do in figma. Not affordable to pay for a full seat, so workflow is impacted.