This is a stupid limitation. This completely disincentivizes using the feature to better communicate with my partners that don’t rely on Figma. Why wouldn’t I just use my own annotation component.

Seems like Annotations are now limited to Dev and Full users. This is disruptive and problematic, and I would like you to reconsider this.

When a designer is creating work and adding annotations, they should not have to think about what Figma seat type each potential viewer of the file has. Annotations could take a range of forms and could provide important messages to product managers, front end engineers, server engineers, marketers, content managers or anyone else.

Don’t require a designer to think about Figma seats and your revenue model whenever they are simply trying to get their work done and communicate clearly with their collaborators. And don’t force us to upgrade users from View seats just to read our notes — we’d sooner use a workaround.

I agree I was super excited to tell my BA team they can see the annotations and write stories just to find out they cannot see them. Now we are going back to creating annotations into screen shots. Super waste of time and posting to confluence pages. UGHHHHH!!!!

Annotations are useless unless they are visible to viewers. I can understand measurements only being available in dev mode, but annotations are useful for PMs and other members of the team.

Why isn’t there an update on this topic? What else are we, the users (and «sponsors» of Figma in that sense) supposed to do to bring attention to this unacceptable situation?

On top of the fact that it appears suspicious to introduce a new tool/feature that allows users to add measurements and annotations but not inform anyone using it that they won’t be visible to viewers, it’s also completely unusable this way.

So, Figma ( ​@djv  ?) , please listen to your paying users, who are responsible for the absurd amounts of license fees paid every month, and make the annotations visible to all users with viewing permissions.

Please ​@djv as stated in the other thread: could you please ensure to pass this request(s) on immediately and provide us with an update on the situation? The situation is not only annoying and frustrating, but also not acceptable.

​@adrian_n and everyone else, you can probably just forget about this and file it under all of the QOL fixes that Figma will never actually do. They are too focused on IPO and AI to deliver the features that users truly need.

But hey, we have Figma Buzz now!

I’m still disturbed, disrupted, pickled and peeved about this. Come on Figma! Please fix this!!! +1,000,000,000

+1 | How has this not been fixed?  I’m back to using Axure because of this seemingly obvious oversight on Figma’s part.  Wires are useless if you can’t provide context.

Because of this limitation in annotation, we’re no longer using this incomplete feature and we’re moving this communications outside of the Figma’s suite. T

has this been resolved since?

​@Zoli  Unfortunately not, that’s why we should keep this thread alive.

in this case, bump

It’s absolutely bonkers to discover that annotations I’ve been adding to designs, tagged with ‘Development’, aren’t even visible in Dev Mode, rendering the entire feature pointless 🤯 This shouldn’t be restricted to certain seats. Back to adding annotations as stickies on the artboard. Following for updates.

Showstopper currently… Please consider this thread

+1 yes, figma annotations viewable to all!

There is no point in using this damn feature if others cant see the damn annotations!

+1 as well! My team has been using the annotation feature for a while only to find out that MOST PEOPLE could not see any notes we intended to show everyone including PMs… so frustrating! 

Another bump for this. 

Letting our clients see annotations is incredibly important for getting alignment on designs. Adding to the hundreds of others requesting this feature be open.

It seems like such a risk to limit visibility of annotations to certain users. It’s a neat feature but I don’t see how this is useful in any way for larger organisations where a good amount of viewers have no need to have a seat.

Yeah... they just don't care about what we need... the post was created on July 16, 2024…