Handoff

The stage of the design process where designers transfer assets, designs and documents to the developers to code

Why it matters

Handoff is a translation, and translations lose whatever was not written down. The best handoffs are boring: named tokens, exported assets, specified states — nothing left for a deadline to decide.

Related terms

Design-To-Code
Assets
User-Centric Design

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