Process
Design that ships: reading the pull request before the mockup
Why I spend as much time in the codebase as in Figma, and what it changes about handoff.
- Published
- 12 August 2026
- Author
- Thomy De Croos
Most handoff friction is not about pixels. It is about a designer discovering a constraint after the design is "done".
“The cheapest design change is the one you make before the engineer starts.”