I think this annotation feature is great, but the documentation isn’t well written. It gives the impression that users with view-only access can see annotations, which is not the case. It would also be very useful to extend this feature to viewers such as PMs or clients, so I can easily show them how a button or function is supposed to work.
Show annotations to users with view access
Totally, it’s a disappointment that Figma is hiding this feature behind the pay wall...
We just discovered this. Our design team had been using this feature to mark-up interactions etc using annotations - unaware that any user without a seat is unable to even see them.
This is yet another incredibly frustrating and frankly aggravating example of Figma's move towards using dark patterns in their account and payment structure.
This is compounded by their insistence on locking in seats until the EOFY, which means they introduced a useful feature, but then arbitrarily put it behind a paywall - without explicitly saying that.
To reiterate, the points above - it would be amazingly helpful if the visibility of annotations was given wholistically (even if this was limited somehow) and in the meantime be very specific about what can and can’t be seen by view only users.
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