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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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mariaaaa

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+1 for allowing annotations to be visible for all 🙏🏻

mariaaaa

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+1 for allowing annotations to be visible for all 🙏🏻

Britt Crocker

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+1 for allowing annotations to be visible for all 👹

Britt Crocker

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+1 to make annotations visible for all 👹

Swava Hooks

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+1 for annotations viewable to all!

+1 for this no-brainer request!!

Jesse_Wallace

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Fully agree - this is actually a feature I’ve been waiting for years for, but is useless since it requires paid seats. This feature is dead in the water unless all users can see them.

xMOx

Active Member

This is actually why I don’t use them, I hope this changes so it brings better collaboration in Figma files

Zoli

Figma Ambassador

I just spent 2 hours setting up annotations for devs AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS only to learn that the second group cannot see it?!

Are you seriously expecting dozens of occasional users to get dev license just because of this?

Well, two hours wasted, back to adding them manually as components. It’s so sad to see Figma slowly turning into Adobe… this is what happens when you have a monopoly unfortunately.

Zoli

Figma Ambassador

After spending two hours setting up detailed annotations, I learned that people with Viewer licenses do not see them.

Annotations are for explaining non-obvious behavior to devs and others including occasional users. While devs are the primary audience, in large enterprise settings (which segment I assume is Figma’s primary source of revenue) usually there’s a large number of stakeholders who are occasionally involved in conversations. It is infeasible to get a dev or editor seat to each person loosely involved in the project just because it’s needed for a convenience feature once a quarter.

We’re back to adding annotations manually, as overlaid components.