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Phase 11 · Collaboration & Developer Handoff

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Design Handoff Best Practices

Part of the UI/UX Design Roadmap.

Summary

Going beyond Phase 5's basics — organizing a file for handoff means clear component naming, documented states, exported assets, and often a short walkthrough conversation with the engineering team.

How to Learn This

  • 1Prepare a full file for handoff: clean layers, documented states, exported assets.
  • 2Practice walking an engineer (or a peer standing in) through a design's intended behavior.
  • 3Learn to flag known open questions or edge cases explicitly rather than leaving them ambiguous.

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