Figma is using dark patterns to charge you more.

Are you being tricked and overcharged by them too?

Here’s how they do it!

Let me start with stating that at hype4.com we use Sketch as our primary design tool for all our professional projects. However, because one particular client insisted, we purchased a paid Figma plan — just for that one specific project.

We invited the three designers from hype4 that are going to work on this project and paid $45 ($15 each).

A little on the expensive side with $15 but ok, it’s not a lot, right?

Now here’s where it gets sneaky

There are two things within Figma that can make you pay a lot more than you anticipated. The first one is in the project permissions — if you have it at “anyone with the link can edit” it simply means that when your clients joins the project, they become an editor and now you’re paying for them too.

There is absolutely NO information that you will cover the charge of every person that joins the file — even by clicking on it by mistake and quitting right away. Boom — they’re an editor now and here’s another $15 for you.