Design Handoff: From Figma to Production Without the Telephone Game

Color, spacing, and type as named tokens consumed by both Figma and code — 'primary-600' travels losslessly; 'that blue' doesn't.

Built-vs-designed review on real devices with the checklist (spacing, states, motion) — cheap while it's a PR comment, expensive when it's a customer complaint.

Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.