Great question! There are several UX approaches for handling viewer permissions. Let me show you both strategies - displaying a read-only message and disabling/hiding elements - so you can see which works better for your use case.
Use the message approach when:
Hide/disable elements when:
Best practice: Combine both approaches - use a subtle message and disable elements for the clearest user experience.
Perfect! Let me show you how the viewer permission concepts would apply to this financial dashboard. I'll recreate the FinFlow interface with both admin and viewer modes to demonstrate the different approaches.
This approach works well for financial applications where data visibility is important but modification rights need to be carefully controlled.