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> A lot of their recent product development has been to enable further expansion in organisations - "Dev Mode" for developers (which now looks incredibly quaint
by codethief 6mo ago
> A lot of their recent product development has been to enable further expansion in organisations - "Dev Mode" for developers (which now looks incredibly quaint against LLMs), […] all are about expanding their TAM out of "pure" design.
I don't think this is correct. In my experience no one buys Figma because of Dev Mode only. Dev Mode just makes it easier/faster to go from an existing design to working code. So it is/was a means to increase Figma's moat, not to get new customers or users. (Devs already needed access to Figma before the introduction of Dev Mode.)
- mock-possum 6mo agoYeah in my experience the ones who benefit the most from dev mode are junior Frontend devs - the ones who don’t know how to implement a pixel perfect design from static comps. Dev mode gives you a head start on the values to use for some css properties, at least, and maybe a more visual way ti experience the css vars in a design system.