[LAUNCHED] All plans should offer more than 4 variable modes

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June 29, 2023
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It would be great if the professional plan offered more than 4 variable modes. Right now I want to set up a mode for each component size-- XS - XL, 5 sizes all together-- which puts me over the 4 limit for pro, but well under the 40 limit for enterprise, which is a quantity I will never need. And there’s no use case for enterprise at all for a team our size.

I think 10-12 modes for pro would be perfect to give small teams like mine room to grow before we reach the scale where an enterprise plan would be worth consideration.

Pinned Reply By jjcm

It’s finally here - mode count updates across Pro and Org.

Pro → 10
Org → 20

I want to thank everyone who posted in this thread - we used a lot of the responses here to inform the mode increase decision. Happy theme swapping y’all :)

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John_Slotylo

any updates?

OG_Can

Active Member

This is still a problem. Any updates on this?

Fatlook

New Participant

Still a problem here too, it’s a feature that has nothing to do with the size of the company, and the limitation makes the modes almost useless… Plz, do something !!

Bogriceanu_Sorin

New Participant

Just my 2 cents about this one…

The feature of having more than 4 variables exists.

So in my oppinion, this topic is not about the Professional plan at it’s core… it’s about the fact that 25 modes cost now 75/mo

I think if we go this way it would grately narrow down the discussion spectrum.

I am working now on a project to streamline DESIGN/DEV process and it got me thinking… Looking at how we use more than 4 modes, I think it mostly falls under making our work more efficient. In this regards, if it would save 1h/mo/designer, why not just go with the higher tier? It would make sense financially.

I will note that I am not affiliated with Figma in any way.

Bruno_Lelles

With all due respect, you’re just wrong.

If Figma put all the dev mode features inside the enterprise plan, and you had to pay the full price for ALL the devs in your team to use ONLY dev features.

You’d be paying for dozens of features that are useless to all the devs on the project.

This post is about a rather questionable design decision by a design company, the lack of a clear response about how the enterprise plan is for giant companies since, with the exception of this feature, all the other features make no sense for companies that don’t need so many layers of security and governance.

Sure, you can do the math and agree to pay much more to have this feature, or try to convince your non-designer manager that it would be better for your team, but in the end, it would just be a way to remedy a wrong decision by Figma.

Bogriceanu_Sorin

New Participant

That being said… i also feel that we are pushed away from professional to higher tiers, and they also try to convert the dev who were usually free…

I guess we reached market saturation on designers… 😦 and growth has to come from somewhere

Hugo_Pardal_Figueira

New Participant

Same here. Recently trying to work with different modes for responsiveness (5 different breakpoints), so now I need to combine different ones into one 😔