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Hey all! Emil here from the Figma team that brought you Dev Mode and Figma for VS Code today! Really interested to hear what you think and also here to answer your questions. We are super excited to invest more into developers in the future, today is just the start of that!
I ran a design team, and many really struggled with Sketch -> Figma transition, and took a long time. I welcome many of the new features. It's great for designers who are more technically oriented, though enterable input fields would be nice. I do wonder how non-technical designers are going to feel. The learning curve is definitely going higher. I'm worried about the rather pricey per / seat cost. There are far more…
how would this impact them? just use figma as usual i would assume
looking forward to giving this a spin, our design team tends to go the iterative artboard style with everything...so sussing out values can be a pain
I ran a design team, and many really struggled with Sketch -> Figma transition, and took a long time. I welcome many of the new features. It's great for designers who are more technically oriented, though enterable input fields would be nice. I do wonder how non-technical designers are going to feel. The learning curve is definitely going higher. I'm worried about the rather pricey per / seat cost. There are far more…
Hey all! Emil here from the Figma team that brought you Dev Mode and Figma for VS Code today! Really interested to hear what you think and also here to answer your questions. We are super excited to invest more into developers in the future, today is just the start of that!
Great work!
I ran a design team, and many really struggled with Sketch -> Figma transition, and took a long time. I welcome many of the new features. It's great for designers who are more technically oriented, though enterable input fields would be nice. I do wonder how non-technical designers are going to feel. The learning curve is definitely going higher. I'm worried about the rather pricey per / seat cost. There are far more…
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What's worse is treating engineers like "just implement the mockup eyeroll " but then the logic of the mockup makes no sense with real data or product. I'd rather have a napkin sketch that we can work on together vs throwing pictures over the wall. As impressive as it is, I feel like Figma makes this situation worse. It's like "see we've figured it all out devs, look how nice this looks. No discussion needed"
they always use text that is ideally sized in mock-ups but completely falls over when real data is used in a responsive web app. My favorite is when design adds data to a mock-up that we don't actually have. My company is, admittedly, a bit of a joke. Also up there: design giving us mock-ups that are a composite of shit that needs done today and future shit they still haven't decided on. And then demand review approv…
That's my favorite - if you mention responsive or how things should wrap or cascade you get the blank stares or "we aren't solving for mobile right now"
Timed perfectly with their conference. Bravo!
Has anyone else worked with teams where their entire idea of "product" was to create 100s of designs in Figma, and then just hand them to developers? What started this mentality?
What's worse is treating engineers like "just implement the mockup eyeroll " but then the logic of the mockup makes no sense with real data or product. I'd rather have a napkin sketch that we can work on together vs throwing pictures over the wall. As impressive as it is, I feel like Figma makes this situation worse. It's like "see we've figured it all out devs, look how nice this looks. No discussion needed"
Don’t get me wrong, I have a ton of respect for good designers, but the best designers are those with a slight technical lean who are willing to design around e.g. built in customization on UIKit widgets instead of full wheel reinvention everywhere.
2023: available for all user 2024: separate license for Dev Mode I guess Figma trying to get more paying customers Edit: feel a bit Adobe vibe
It's free for all paid plans even after 2023. The only pricing change is that you can add "developer" role users who have access only to dev mode for a cheaper price than an editor.