Hi, everyone. I thought I'd jump outside of the screen. We'll do this live and working with your developer. There's no like official way of working with a developer, some sort of like official handoff process. OK? Basically what ends up happening is it would depend on the developer and your relationship with them. Like the goal and where it is all amazing is where you have got the developer in earlier in the process. OK. Surprising anybody with a finished design is no fun. The developer will feel resentment. It's probably too strong a word but like they've had no input. So OK, this, this design has given me this thing to build and I'm gonna go build it because they said I had to like what you want is for them to be part of the wire frames, to give you advice, part of the kind of 1st, 1st few frames that you do to give you advice so that there's not just buy in, but they feel like they're part of the process. And so that especially when you're new, getting feedback earlier on just means...

you're not going to design yourself into a disaster. So many times have I got like, just like the language can be really simple. It doesn't have to be official meetings. It can be like, hey, uh Sandy, would you mind? Uh you know, can I quickly show you my wire frames? Just this is where I'm thinking of going with the project. Just want your feedback, you know, would you mind giving me five minutes? OK. Or, hey, there's the first few frames. What do you think? Because there's so many jobs where I have assumed something was too hard to do. So, not done it. Only to find out in that first conversation. They're like, oh, I was gonna do that, but I think we'll push that to phase two because it seems like hard work. What do you think? And they're like, no, we've, we've got that other thing that's very similar. Um We've already built that, you know, that sort of framework's already built for this other thing. We just put that in there and I'll change it and you're like, hey, I'm not a um engineer or developer. So there are just lots of things where I think are really hard, but it turns out they aren't and the opposite. OK? There's things I'm designing and it's kind of like a core piece of the thing that I want. Like, it might be just like a value add. I'm like, oh, this would be awesome. And then you talk to the developer early on and they're like that is gonna take double the project time or add all this extra complexity. Do you really need it? And when it's early, you're like, no, you're just like we'll do that in phase two. Phase two is a good way to say we'll do this later, but probably never um you know, to shuffle along so we can get this project done and that all happens in that first kind of dialogue. So yes, there's a handoff process when it's all signed off. But that should not be the first time your uh developer should be seeing your project. So work in the open, ask them to comment, get them involved and find out why and how they like to work. You know, what kinds of things they want to see at the handoff so that you're not gonna like, I hope they like it and sending, sending an email off with all your links and images and they're gonna all want something, they're gonna wanna see mockups, prototypes and a bunch of images. Probably they'll use your mockups to work out spacing and padding and those sorts of things. And if it's a new job, OK? But they won't be using your rectangles, OK? They'll just be looking at the spacing and um yeah, rebuilding everything mostly in code, OK? Except for things like images. So yeah, there are some consistencies between the handoff. We'll do a little bit more in a second, but talk to your developer and find out who they are, be, be proactive. Don't just wait till like um engineering department. Go. Do it ask your, you might be have a, you know, you might have a, a product lead or a product manager or you might be working on your own and gonna outsource it or maybe the client's gonna do that for you. Find out who it is, talk to them, make the developer your friend. If you are the developer, it makes things easier. But um all that is how to work with your developer. Let's jump in and I'll show you some more tactile things we can do in fig.

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Talking To Your Developer Early In The Figma Design Process

Talking To Your Developer Early In The Figma Design Process

Lesson Info

107. Talking To Your Developer Early In The Figma Design Process

Lessons

Introduction to Figma Essentials

Getting Started with Figma Training

What Is Figma For & Does It Do The Coding?

What's The Difference Between UI And UX In Figma

What We Are Making In This Figma Course

Class Project 01 - Create Your Own Brief

What is Lo Fi Wireframe vs High Fidelity in Figma?

Creating Our Design File & Introducing Frames In Figma

The Basics Of Type & Fonts In Figma

Rectangles, Circles, Buttons And Rounded Corners In Figma

How To Use Color In Figma

Strokes Plus Updating Color Defaults In Figma

Object Editing And How To Escape In Figma

Scale vs Selection Tool in Figma

Frames vs Groups in Figma

Class Project 02 - Wireframe

Where To Get Free Icons For Figma

Matching The Stroke Of Our Icons

How To Use Plugins In Figma For Icons

Class Project 03 - Icons

How to Use Pages in Figma

How to Prototype in Figma

Prototype Animation and Easing In Figma

Testing On Your Phone with Figma Mirror

Class Project 04 - Testing On Your Phone

What is Smart Animation & Delays in Figma?

Class Project 05 - My First Animation

Sharing & Commenting on a Figma File with Stakeholders

Sharing & Editing With Other Ux Designers In Figma

How I Get Inspiration For Ux Projects

How To Create A Mood Board In Figma

Class Project 06 - Moodboard

How to Work with Columns & Grids in Figma

Tips, Tricks, Preferences, and Weirdness in Figma

Color Inspiration & The Eyedropper In Figma

How To Create A Color Palette In Figma

How to Make Gradients in Figma

How to Create & Use Color Styles in Figma

Class Project 07 - Colors & Columns

Fonts on Desktop vs in Browser in Figma

What Fonts Can I Use? Plus Font Pairing In Figma

What Common Font Sizes Should I Choose In Web Design?

How to Make Character Styles in Figma

Lorem Ipsum & Placeholder Text In Figma

Useful Things To Know About Text In Figma

How To Fix Missing Fonts In Figma

Class Project 08 - Text

Drawing Tips And Tricks In Figma

Squircle Buttons with ios Rounded Courses In Figma

Boolean, Union, Subtract, Intersect and Exclude with Pathfinder in Figma

What Is The Difference? Union vs Flatten In Figma

Class Project 09 - Making Stuff

Smart Selection & Tidy Up in Figma

Do I Need To Know Illustrator With Figma?

Tips & Tricks For Using Images In Figma

Masking & Cropping Images In Figma

Free Images & Plugins For Figma

Do You Need Photoshop For Ux Design In Figma?

Class Project 10 - Images

What Is Autolayout & Expanding Buttons In Figma?

Class Project 11 - Buttons

Auto Layout For Spacing

How To Use Constraints In Figma

Combining Nested Frames Auto Layout & Constraints in Figma

Adding Text Box Autoheight to Autolayout in Figma

Class Project 12 - Responsive Design

Nice Drop Shadow & Inner Drop Shadow Effects In Figma

Blur Layer, Background Blur & Image Blur in Figma

How to Make Neumorphic UI buttons in Figma

Class Project 13 - Effects

How To Save Locally & Save History In Figma

What are Components in Figma?

Updating, Changing & Resetting Your Components

You Can’t Kill Main Components In Figma