plz bring inspect out of dev mode
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Oke, itās a stupid thing. Why are you forced to buy more seats if you have 1 (one) designer and 5 (five) developers on your team? It may be a moment to switch back to Adobe XD. Yes, its worst but itās much cheaper!
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Itās too expensiveā¦stop!
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For our team we want Dev mode only seats on our Professional plan. Because if we give a design seat with Design Editor permissions thereās always a chance that the developers will make unwanted changes to the design. Which is a very big issue.
Will I be able to set Design roles to āviewer-restrictedā for Editor seats, but enable Dev Mode for them at the same time?
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This is outrageously expensive, you shouldnāt have to pay at least 25$/month to see the spacing between elements. Unbelievable.
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No, thatās whatās upsetting, thereās no split between design and development seats in the professional plan, only paid Figma seats allow you to see Dev-mode. This means that, if you want to give access to your developers, you are giving them full design access and paying for their seats as much as you are for your designersā.
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Iām still trying hard to imagine how the Figma meeting where they approved all this changes was. So random, so inaccurate.
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What happens if we have external developers who we share the design with. Do we have to pay for their seats? just so they can have DEV mode. Some have a paid subscription, but it is useless, we have to pay for them to access DEV mode. Figma is charging 2 times.
Makes no sense.
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This makes no sense!
We have 2 editors seats and our designs are shared (view-only) among 7 others developers. Our cost would increase from $24 (2x Professional seats) to $310 (3x Minimum Organization seats $135 + 7 Dev seats $175).
If we had only 9 Professional seats, the cost would be $108. They would be enabled to see everything in Dev mode we could, but thereās no option to āblockā their changes on Design mode? Thatās ridiculous
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Itās a similar situation in our company. We had long discussions and negotiations with the management until we finally adopted Figma for all Designers. The move to now also have Developers pay comes at a bad time and we as Designers are worried how long we still can use Figma - our Company wonāt buy additional licenses for Developers, thatās for sure, and if we would have to it would be impossible for us to argue for it in the futureā¦ a real bummer and I agree it will lead to people leaving Figma.
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The fact that no one is responding to this worries me greatly.
I just tried to find a way to launch normal Chromium DevTools which used to be available through a shortcut, it is now gone.
Gone is also my ability to choose whether or not I want to use DevTools.
How can I turn off the Devmode for my team completely?
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What is happening here Figma 
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Our design and engineering teams are deeply disappointed with this pricing decision. I am not sure what researcher or analyst convinced the executive team that 0 developers paying $25 a seat would generate more revenue than 30 developers paying $5-10 dollars a seat. If you read through these posts or just speak with your diverse set of customers you will see that many ( maybe not all ) of our organizations have a team of developers that just want to inspect properties, and usually only a few times a month. This will never justify the price point you landed on.
As I am sure you know in most software organizations developers outnumber design staff by a minimum of 5 to 1. I assume this is partially the motivation to some of the changes, tapping into an adjacent market where you are already embedded in the org. However, the issue is that at this rate, our developers will not only not use the offering, they will begin to propose new software solutions and eventually the design team will have to follow along.
We really are trying to look at this objectively and understand you have a fiduciary responsibility to grow the business, but you would have been much better off starting at a feature appropriate price point > gaining more interests from development teams > creating more developer centric features > and then raising the per seat costs once the developer feature set and use case matched the price point.
We are huge fans of Figma Design and FigJam as products and generally have been big supporters of the entire Figma organization. As a design team we still are, but this decision has soured much of our development team and key decision makers in the org. It is never too late for you to make an adjustment here. Perhaps you can offer the basic inspection ( tokens, measurement, etcā¦) for $5 or better yet, win organizations over to dev-mode for $10 and see where it goes. We believe it is in both your best interests and ours to not hold on to this decision too tightly and make a change here.
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Can I ask
We do only development and all the designs are shared to us
I donāt understand, do we need to pay an account?
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These posts should be merged. Dev mode pricing - #21 by ppz
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@Marco33 no, that is what we thought. We have a subscription but it is useless if someone shares a document with you. It is the owner of the team where the shared doc is who has to pay for you to have have dev mode. Basically give you editor access, and this means they pay an extra seat.
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Absolutely no logic in such pricing approach! I wonder if it is because Figma is no longer interested in having smaller customers, and rather have them move to XD.
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Figma is now looking like they donāt care about us anymore. This bad sign made most of us jump to Figma from Adobe and Sketch. But now they are taking the same path and donāt care to empathize with their users.
If care is not taken they will soon charge us differently to use the prototyping feature of Figma.
Figma please bear with your users. We love you and donāt chase us away. This is a typical Adobe move
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This is such a bold move Adobe, eh, I mean Figma. You know, as a freelance designer I have a professional plan, all my project are within my account. Why should I pay for external developers who want to inspect my designs?
Why do I even have to upgrade my account from professional to organisation just to be able to grant some external developer Dev Mode access but NOT edit permissions!?
PS: Thanks for removing the box model view. It was way to handy to be accessed without paying.
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Thanks for getting back on this, is so damn unclear in the documentation
The designers we work with will not be too happy about this news ā¦
This ridiculous new pricing makes it seem like Iām no longer part of the target group of Figma. Itās a shame, really. Thankfully thereās plenty of other options 
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