How to create Figma design loved by developers
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Advice for tonight: make Figma files that map to code — structure layers to mirror HTML/CSS (avoid multi-line text as invisible separate tags), use auto layout like flexbox, define design tokens (color, spacing, radius) with the Figma Tokens plugin and export JSON, model component variants and interactive transitions so states are explicit, surface prototype arrows in the design pane with ProToFlow, split work into a fast design phase and a structured handoff phase, and validate by actually implementing a page to catch margin and responsiveness gaps.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:30Free-form vs structured
- 3:18Design intent for engineers
- 8:00Testing by implementation
- 11:51Two-phase design process
- 14:00Design tokens
- 16:55Components and variants
- 18:51Communication vs efficiency
- 21:45Summary
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