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

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
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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Bruno_Lelles

I made a comment on one of his LinkedIn posts. If you guys could interact with it, maybe it could work.

linkedin.com

Noor_Sobhan

Just ran into the same issue in my org. We have an org license and now just for this, might need to upgrade to enterprise. It would have been nice even to pick some features as simple add-on packages.

CC_Sam

I’m hitting this issue when using breakpoints for modes. With the maximum 4 modes I’ve had to “sacrifice” the 768px width and am left performing a ton of extra Q/A post-programming at that size because of it.

We’re a small team, I currently pay $105/mo for 7 seats. The “solution” of switching to Enterprise would cost us a 500% increase (Professional → Enterprise) in spend just to get the 5th variable mode I need. Enterprise’s features provides no value to my team, aside from the mode increase.

The 4 mode limitation is fine for the Free plan, but not for ANY paid tier.

FilipaGo

New Participant

@dvaliao any news on this? It’s been over a year! We need an answer.

George_B1

New Participant

nop, they were busy redesigning the UI instead of fixing poorly designed features.

Gleb

Power Member

As a free workaround, you can use collections as modes and switch between them using this plugin:

https://figma.fun/LwgJ8f

Not ideal of course but for breakpoints for example this seems like a decent solution.

Ben_Smeets

Active Member

Still a bit strange that this (lively) topic is completely ignored by Figma…

Gibran1

I believe the design of variables in Figma is suboptimal. The free plan offers only one mode, which begs the question: what is the advantage of using variables over local styles? The significant disparity between the paid and organization plans, jumping from 4 to 40 modes, is also absurd. It seems evident that variables are rendered practically unusable unless you upgrade to the organization plan.