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Make Dev Mode Annotations Visible to All


aaronjellis

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.

13 replies

dvaliao
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • 4664 replies
  • July 18, 2024

Hey @aaronjellis, thanks for the feedback!

We’ll pass this onto the Dev Mode team for future consideration.


Mikka_Wild_adesso

This is also a major impediment for our team in using the native annotations in Figma, since we also need the other roles (PM, PO, QA etc.) to see annotated content- and function-related but not technical data.

@dvaliao
Other impediments with the annotations we have are:


dvaliao
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • 4664 replies
  • August 15, 2024

Thanks for chiming in and providing additional feedback, @Mikka_Wild_adesso!

I’ll make sure the Dev Mode team also has eyes on those topics.


Breanna Wong
  • New Member
  • 1 reply
  • February 13, 2025

+1 for making dev mode annotations visible to all roles. This could happen through a link to the annotated Figma design, or by making the dev mode annotations exportable to a PDF file that includes both the design and annotations. 

My team is currently unable to use the dev mode annotations because of this limitation. Instead we have resorted to using the AnnoDot plugin to create annotations outside of dev mode because they can be exported to PDF. This serves our purpose, but discourages the dev team from adopting dev mode because we’re missing out on a high-value feature.

Thanks for considering this request!


Lynda
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  • 1 reply
  • April 7, 2025

Please allow annotations to be visible for all. My team is having a hard time to explain all the changes to PM/PO/Stakeholders.


Nikolai Ovchinnikov

+1 for annotaions for everybody! It’s core feature, but it’s stupid to buy dev for it.


RookTakesQueen

+1 for annotations viewable to all!
 

 


Courtney Chernek

+1 for annotations viewable to all! Especially for PM, PO and QA roles!


Grace Powell

+1 yes, annotations viewable for all!!


mariaaaa
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  • 2 replies
  • April 18, 2025

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


Britt Crocker

+1 to make annotations visible for all 👹


Swava Hooks
RookTakesQueen wrote:

+1 for annotations viewable to all!
 

 

+1 for this no-brainer request!!


Kelsey Hager

Casting another vote for making annotations visible to all! 


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