[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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Michal_Kovacik1

New Participant

what about infinite for $5? 😉
https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1404783727338541788/infinite-variable-modes

Lachlan1

New Participant

Just dropping in with my regular rant about this unbelievably designer-hostile decision from Figma. My company has recently made changes to their loyalty program which means we now have more than 4 Status tiers. We’d previously been able to use Modes to easily and tidily build out variants of experiences for these different tiers but now we need to completely re-think our process.

It’s just so frustrating and disappointing because we all know it makes absolutely zero sense. Good process and library/prototype structure is team-size and organisational structure agnostic. Whether you’re a solo professional, part of a small team or a cog in a massive cashed-up organisation these needs are universal. Unfortunately that leaves us with no other option than to view this not as apathy from Figma, but as a shameful and opportunistic example of gatekeeping and price gouging.

I truly hope Figma come to their senses on this, and do the right thing to advance their publicly stated vision of a future where design is even more:

collaborative,
borderless,
transparent, and
community-driven

Because like Figma say: The best way to design is together. And the surest way to get there is to make design accessible to everyone.

Jason_Thompson

New Participant

We still reeeeeeealy need more modes. Paying 3x more for an Org plan and still only getting 4 modes makes no sense to me. Or can you just explain why, Figma folks?

james_guest1

Working on a team with enterprise account. We actually have run out of modes for a client and need mode than 40. I would say make it 40 for pro and unlimited for org/enterprise.

Aidil_Goh

New Participant

Wanted to create 6 modes (to reflect the breakpoints in Bootstrap) but then quickly discovered I’m limited to 4… Yes please for this 🙏

Michal_Kovacik1

New Participant

Maybe this plugin could help you with that https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1404783727338541788/infinite-variable-modes

Anna_Rocca1

Main case: You can not hand off to small teams with this limitation, even IF a team has 40 modes in an enterprise plan and they are building to hand off to a small team on an org plan its absolutely useless as a small team on a professional or org plan could not consume those 40 modes.

UI kits are also useless with 40 modes as they can not be consumable for someone not on enterprise.

This is just infuriating.

40 modes for all!!!

Unlimited for enterprise!!