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Make Dev Mode Annotations Visible to All

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
July 16, 2024
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Please make Dev Mode Annotations visible by all roles, not just Full Dev Mode seats. This can become costly for users needing context but not all the other dev-mode features.

Here’s the scenario:
We have a dashboard, with cards showing a customer’s account status. This status can be mapped from multiple back-end statuses, to show just one front-end status. For example, any of the following could be mapped to a single status known to the customer as “Completed”: canceled, terminated, sold, complete, etc.

This is something that the developer needs to reference, but then also the PM needs to reference in writing tickets (who doesn’t need full dev-mode access), the QE needs to reference for testing automations, and various other individuals on our team. Placing it in a comment makes it less clearly attached to the specific piece of the design, and requires us to keep documentation dispersed among different tools (Jira, Confluence, Figma etc).

Simply making Dev mode annotations visible to viewers would make for far less duplicate documentation or added dependency on other documentation tools for a designer and team.

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arch_annette

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@dvaliao Thank you. Is the feature request a link that people can track and/or vote on?

RookTakesQueen

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I just spent an hour adding annotations to my designs and circulating specs with my team, only to learn that my team couldn’t see them. If annotations are solely for me, then this should be more clear in the Figma interface. My managers have View seats, and do not need Edit or Dev seats.

As of this moment, I am completely confused about who sees annotations, what seat they need, and what the intent is. The annotations button appears in the regular interface view, which leads me to believe that it’s unrelated to Dev mode’s annotations.

This is very frustrating.

I just did this same exact thing and now I regret doing it. It was by accident that I discovered they were only viewable to editors and PAID plans. Figma, please come up with a different marketing strategy for your subscription service, as limiting your new features is lowering user opinions of your product.

RookTakesQueen

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+1 for annotations viewable to all!

Kirill17

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The more you implement dubious functions, the less trustworthy you are. Soon it will be impossible to open a link without a subscription. What is happening after the merger with Adobe is some kind of nightmare.

Kirill17

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And yes. I completely forgot. Also implement a creative cloud and then the product will definitely become the same 💩 as all the others.

Stephane_D

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I totaly agree with the fact that annotation is the most greedy functionnolity we have see so far. We understand you need to consolidate your business model, but such a thing, knowing how bad the comments work (you can”t copy pas them along with a screen for example), I, like many others here, need this functionnality to be visible for standard viewers. this is a functionnality for communicating more clearly on our daily changes.

We already pay a lot for a seat. This is not asking for this feature to be used by free members, juste we ask to make them VISIBLE.

So please figma team, make an urgent update to let everyone use this feature.

Stephane_D

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Hey All, thank you for your honest feedback!

We’ve updated this topic into a feature request and edited the title for clarity. We’ll pass this onto our team for future consideration.

please make the future quick this time, please.

Jason P.

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The new annotations and measurements feature is really great and helpful, but it’s basically useless because visitors can’t see it without a full seat.

This is especially problematic when you’re working on projects with hundreds of people, as it’s pointless to pay for a full seat for everyone who only needs to glance at screens and concepts occasionally.

So, please add the option to set annotations and measurements visibility to „everyone,“ even for visitors without a full seat.

I concur with this. The feature should be able available to all. As Product Owners, BAs and Dev need to be able to see annotations. Not all have edit role. Can we please get this included for reviewer role?