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

40 modes should be the standard and not the exception for higher level plans - this should be open to any free or paid license. If you want to go in sane sure then 40+ is for people who pay…

It seems Figma really likes to push competitors like Penpot by still being a lazy ass product not fixing their core features.

Just echoing everyone’s sentiment. Modes are a constant pain point in our design handoff because we can’t define more than 4 breakpoints without the hacks mentioned above.

We are a 2-person design team supporting 20+ engineers on the Organization plan. There is absolutely no way our Organization is going to pay to upgrade everyone just so that one designer can access more than 4 Modes.

If this sheds any light on their mindset for applying features to pricing, I just recently took a survey aimed at Figma Admins. The options they presented in order to assess my preference for what plan tiers include looked like utter chaos to me. Like if these could be close to actual options they’re considering—they’d be COMPLETELY out of touch with what people want and would be willing to pay for, regarding a design tool.

If someone in charge at Figma comes to their senses, maybe this Modes and other terrible attempts at cash grabbing could be resolved. But if they keep going how they’ve been and how they appear to be grasping at straws in this survey, I have very little hope they’ll avoid losing a lot of customers to competitive apps that catch up to and surpass Figma with better value.

What were the options?

I doubt I’d be allowed to repeat them anywhere and even if I was, they were too numerous to remember distinctly. So just picture all random combinations of feature tiers from nothing to everything and price from current to ludicrous.

Granted it was probably this way to logically determine price and feature bucket importance in a way similar to personality tests. But at the same time, it was disturbing to see carefree combinations thrown together into real looking plans that were otherwise utterly unrealistic.

@Hoby-Van-Hoose Interesting. Did they make the survey to see if people can get confused so much with their plans and features that they don’t realize they are overpaying for no reason? We are just a small team with Pro plan since 3 years and I maintain as the Team Owner. I cannot even imagine how confusing this sh** could get when you’re an Admin in an Org or Enterprise tier team.

@dennsi I assume their purpose was to help executives get current information on what their customers value in plans, between features and price.

It could be for any number of other motivations. How it was presented though, just made me think of this meme:

The jump from 4 modes to 40 for enterprise only is ridiculous. At the minimum, at least provide the option to purchase additional modes without having to completely upgrade your plan.

Hey Denise @dvaliao, after one year may you please came with this topic with the team again, it is really important and it seems Figma doesn’t really care.

There is a bunch of argumentation on this topic, in 30min someone at least could read and take a decision about it.