What next? Paid components?
I love Figma, but…
- Paid Dev-Mode — It’s not FigJam, it’s not a separate product. It’s part of the design.
It’s an artificial separation to appear valuable. The only value is that you don’t need to press “Alt” to see spacing - that’s it. You can’t force all developers to pay for so many places.
🧊 Switching modes frezes.
😓 The links from the developers opens in dev mode, although I was on this page in edit mode
🗨️ Annotations? Really? Do you remember that there are comments? Maybe they were the ones that needed to be improved?
⌨️ 25$ seat for auto-«Alt» button???
- Limitations of Variables
🪙 Functionality is completely disabled for free plans, how are designers supposed to be trained to do this? From YouTube tutorials?
📛 4 rows for Pro. That’s enough for basic use, but the limitations are strongly felt. Every time you try to open the fifth column you are told you to pay more
- Team list — impossible dark-pattern level to imagine
🤡 “Edit requests” are no different from “View requests” and can easily be confused, you can give editing rights even to those who don’t need it.
🤡 There are no filters in the team list to see who has edit permissions
🤡 Any designer with edit permission can be given edit anybody. This cannot be tracked when you have 20 or more designers. And the admin will not be notified in any way about the added new editors (notify is paid in Organization plan 👏 👏 👏)
Some ideas for future updates
- Limit components — 1000 for Pro, 10000 for Interprise.
- Paid color styles — 4 folders for Pro, 40 folders for Interprise
- Paid view accounts — 1000 views \ 5$/mo
- Paid prototyping mode — 25$/mo per seat
- Figma Creative Cloud Suite — Edit + Proto + Dev modes just for 75$/mo per seat instead of 95$! 💫20% off!!! 💫