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From Figma to Production Without Losing the Design
By First Data Team, Engineering & Product
A handoff workflow that keeps spacing, tokens, and motion consistent across design and code.
The gap between design and development is rarely about tools, it's about shared language. We start every product with a token map: color, type scale, spacing, and motion durations live in one document both teams reference.
Components in Figma mirror components in code. When a button has three states in design, it has three states in Storybook before it ships to production. No one-off CSS in page templates.
Responsive behavior is specified, not implied. Breakpoints, max widths, and RTL mirroring rules are documented alongside each layout, critical for Persian and Arabic products.
Motion is part of the spec: enter/exit durations, easing curves, and reduced-motion fallbacks are exported as constants, not improvised in the browser.