Design Handoff

design-handoff

Prepare designs for development handoff. Document specifications, interactions, and assets to enable efficient development and maintain design quality.

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SKILL.md

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Design Handoff

Overview
When to Use
Quick Start
Reference Guides
Best Practices

Overview

Design handoff bridges design and development, ensuring developers have all information needed to implement designs accurately and efficiently.

When to Use

Before development starts
Feature completion in design
Component library updates
Design system changes
Iterative refinement handoff

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

Design Handoff Package:

Overview:
  - Feature description
  - User flows
  - Key interactions
  - Platform (web, iOS, Android)

Screens & Components:
  - All screen designs
  - Responsive variants (mobile, tablet, desktop)
  - All component states (default, hover, focus, disabled, error)
  - Dark mode variants (if applicable)

Specifications:
  - Typography (font, size, weight, line-height)
  - Spacing & layout (padding, margin, gaps)
  - Colors (hex values, opacity)
  - Shadows & elevations
  - Border radius
  - Animations & transitions

Interactions:
  - Click/tap behaviors
  - Hover states
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide	Contents
Developer-Friendly Documentation	Developer-Friendly Documentation
Handoff Checklist	Handoff Checklist
Design-Dev Collaboration	Design-Dev Collaboration

Best Practices

✅ DO

Create comprehensive documentation
Export all assets and specifications
Document every component state
Include responsive variants
Explain design decisions
Provide developer-friendly specs
Use shared design tools
Schedule kickoff meeting
Make yourself available for questions
Review implementations and iterate

❌ DON'T

Expect developers to guess
Leave responsive design to chance
Skip edge case documentation
Use unclear specifications
Disappear after handoff
Change designs mid-development without notification
Provide images instead of vector files
Ignore technical constraints
Miss performance considerations
Skip accessibility in handoff

Install skill

Copy and run in your terminal

npx -y skills add https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill design-handoff

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