Copywriter Text-Editor Only Permission

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As a UX designer, I work with a lot of product owners who (especially towards the end of a project) often only wish for minor text changes in the designs.

Since even small tasks take up time, it would be beneficial for both sides if the product owners could implement text changes themselves.

Based on the current role distribution in Figma, I cannot grant users “text-only” editing rights, which means there is always a risk that colleagues could inadvertently alter or destroy the design.

+1 We also work with content creators whom we are now giving full access to the Figma files, but this is not ideal since it’s easy to misclick and accidentally move stuff.

Text-editing only is a very basic use case, I would suggest to also allow this plan to change images from placeholders to actual content since selecting the visual materials is also part of many content creators’ job. (Maybe also changing icons, but for non-glyph icons this is a different can of worms since it would involve instance swapping)

If this separate plan ever is created it would also be nice if it’s a bit cheaper than a full seat ;). Due to the current price we are hesitant to give all content creators access.

Any updates to this feature? We have to create copy docs for the content designers and it becomes cumbersome to maintain both a design file and copy file when the copy gets copy and pasted into the design file anyways. It would be so much easier to be able to do it all in one environment. When I worked in publishing a million years ago, we used a plugin called WoodWing that would merge InDesign and InCopy and it was really helpful, it provided firewalls between designers and editors so that editors could stay within a certain word count and designers could adjust the design as needed if they needed to add more text. 

+1 Still waiting for this. So many projects I work on have multiple rounds of revisions with legal teams where copy needs constant changing, and I don’t want copy editors or project managers accidentally breaking the design (especially when we use Auto-layout and moving items around can have huge impacts). It takes so much time away from me designing to go into files and change asterisks, footnotes, and legal claims on webpages where the design isn’t changing, just the text. When the design is good and done, copy edits shouldn’t be up to the designer to update in Figma just to get final approvals.

Allowing editing of text using custom fonts can still be based on the plan setting (ie. Enterprise + plans have font sharing, Pro plans don’t). Could even be an addition to the Collab seat!