[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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Fernando_Ruiz

Please and thank you

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Anonymous

I was attempting to take a list of fake customers and apply text variables like company name, address, phone, contact, ect. to make it very easy to fill in fake data for any of our mock ups. I was hoping to have a list of 30 pseudo companies, as I design a logistics software that could have far more than that on screen, but 30 makes it not seem like there is repeating data at a glance. I was excited to apply these string variables to the components so that I could change the mode, and have it reflect a different client company. Alas, 4 modes or companies will never work for my situation, maybe 15 could? We are a team of 3 designers, and switching to enterprise seems rather cost prohibitive especially to pay for 3 extra seats. This could have drastically improved our workflow. Instead it just wasted an hour of my design time because that is how long it took to get to the 5th mode. This is not freemium software. This is business workflow software - some of us spend most of our working hours in it. It should support a users workflow, not back them into upgrading. I hope that future releases see a change to this policy.

nico_seekout

Ran into this limit today (organization plan). Baffling.

Matthew_Worden

In the great list of brands that have raised to greatness and then fell from glory, there is usually a specific moment or action that created that shift. Congrats Figma, I think you found yours.

Khai_Pham

It’s been a year and we still cannot migrate to use Variables for our colors because of this utterly nonsense 4 mode cap. Up to this date, there is still zero reasonable explanation for this arbitrary cap besides money grab.

r_sh

Active Member

We’re running into the mode limitation, as well, on a project which requires specific types of accessibility and screen contrast on different devices. It was also a limitation on building buttons with multiple types of button states based on input devices.

The arbitrary limitation of 4 variables is keeping our entire team from implementing Variables in almost any application, since core features can’t use them.

James_Mckernan

New Member

Any news on what is happening with this?

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James74

This is really a shame. Such a killer feature potentially. Just make it like… 20 for Organisations?

Sine_Lalita

Our team has put so much effort in trying to migrate our color repository and variables to Figma and we ran into this limitation. like seriously?
We are nowhere near being enterprise and definitely need 10-12 modes. 😡