Clear documentation of design decisions for smoother handoff and better collaboration with developers.
This is the part that usually gets skipped, and the reason design intent quietly disappears in the build. We document why a design works the way it does, specify the components and define the interactions. Above all, we write down the edge cases: empty, loading, error, too much content, no permission. Those states are where handovers break down.
Typically 5–10 days
Rationale
Why the design is the way it is, so future changes do not undo the reasoning by accident.
Specify
Components, states, spacing and behavior, precise enough to build against.
Edge cases
Empty, loading, error, overflow, permission-denied. The states that get discovered in production otherwise.
Hand over
Walked through with the developers, not emailed at them.
Usually in Figma itself, next to the designs. But we fit just as well into the way your team already works, in Confluence or Storybook, for example.
It overlaps. A system without documentation is a component library; the documentation is what makes it a system.