Design to Developer Handoff in Figma - Full Tutorial

Ship a production-ready Figma to Developer handoff that engineers actually use. This full tutorial covers accessibility annotations, reading/focus order, landmarks, error & loading states, AI-generated edge cases, and a developer handoff checklist. Plus a plugin demo and mobile considerations. Perfect for design system teams or enterprise UX teams shipping React/Storybook or enterprise apps.

What you’ll learn:
➡️ File & component setup that scales for teams
➡️ Accessibility annotations: reading order, focus order, landmarks, headings, links, buttons
➡️ Error, loading, and auth states (and how to generate edge cases with AI)
➡️ Handoff checklist, plugin demo, and mobile patterns

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Annotation kit: https://www.figma.com/community/file/...
https://screen.studio/?aff=bdzGd

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:31 Academy Introduction
0:51 The Basics
2:53 Developer Collaboration Intro
4:02 Accessibility Intro
5:21 Figma Annotation Review
7:48 Web Accessibility Annotation Kit
9:08 How Developers Look at Components
11:26 Button Annotation
14:20 Link Annotation
16:14 Button + Link Detail Annotation
22:59 Heading Annotation Intro
27:09 Heading Annotation Best Practice
28:39 Heading Annotation Details
30:28 Image Annotation
32:13 SVG Use-Case
33:39 Reading Order Annotation
36:21 Reading Order Annotation Demo
37:56 Assigning Reading Order Annotation
40:06 Focus Order Intro & Demo
43:03 Assigning Focus Order Annotations
46:38 Input Annotation Basics
49:31 Input Annotation Advanced Details
51:12 Landmark Annotation Intro
52:25 How Framer Handles Landmark Annotations
54:03 Applying Landmark Annotations
57:40 Figma File Structure Introduction
1:04:42 Figma File Best Practices
1:07:48 Error/Edge States Introduction
1:11:02 Using Chat GPT to Generate Edge Cases
1:13:28 Including Error States in Your Figma File
1:15:14 Designing Loading States
1:18:53 Loading State Edge Cases
1:19:59 System Level Errors
1:27:27 Authentication Errors
1:32:19 Generating Field Level Edge Cases using AI
1:37:47 Developer Handoff Checklist
1:40:01 Figma Plugin for Dev Handoff Demo
1:41:19 The Importance of Demoing Prototypes to Developers
1:42:41 Screenstudio Introduction
1:43:13 Screenstudio Demo
1:43:54 The Importance of Mobile Designs
1:46:02 Mobile Figma Components
1:48:35 Outro

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