Hey all!
tl;dr: Professional Plan does not offer Dev-only seats. Currently, Devs automatically have Design edit rights when they got upgraded for Dev-Mode. This clearly needs some rework! Please remove automatic edit rights from Dev-Mode seats.
Currently we are running on a Professional plan with a small team (2 designers 2 devs).
Today, as the team owner I upgraded our Devs so they can continue using Dev-Mode.
However the upgrade just allows me to set their “Design seat” roles to “Full”.
Since they do not need (and want) edit rights and just want to use Dev-Mode I tried setting them to “Viewer-restricted”.
I assumed this would remove their edit rights and keep the access for Dev-Mode since we have enough seats in our plan. Unfortunately, this does not work. It completely removes access for Dev-Mode.
Figma, please look into this and improve the team management experience and separate the edit rights from viewer-based rights such as viewing files and using Dev-Mode.
The easiest solution would be to simply add Developer seats like in higher tier plans.
Alternatively add a new third role that combines “Viewer-restricted” with enabled Dev-Mode. Design/Edit rights should be opt-in for Developers and manageable since they do not need or want them anyway.
