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Design Handoff Survival Guide

Stop throwing your work over the wall and hoping for the best.

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What if I told you your designs aren’t done when they look good?

They’re done when they’re buildable.

The Design Handoff Survival Guide is a brutally practical PDF that helps you stop guessing what your devs need—and start delivering work that actually ships fast, clean, and aligned.

Built by a UI developer with 20+ years in the trenches (hi, I’m Drew), this isn’t theory. It’s field-tested clarity for product teams that are tired of the back-and-forth.

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    💡 What You’ll Get (That Most Designers Miss)

    This isn’t just a checklist—it’s a mindset shift. You’ll learn:

    What to document and why
    No fluff. Just the things that save hours of dev time (and your own reputation).

    How to design with the build in mind
    Real content, real constraints, real collaboration.

    Why devs keep “breaking” your designs
    And how to stop setting them up to fail.

    How to show up to handoff like a pro
    Even if you don’t write code, you’ll start sounding like someone who could.



    🛠 Inside the PDF:

    • The 10 silent killers of a clean handoff (and how to fix them)

    • Real examples of how to document states, spacing, and responsiveness

    • A developer-friendly checklist that keeps your Figma files ship-ready

    • The one tip that makes every design system easier to implement

    • Ways to make your designs more inclusive, sustainable, and scalable

    • Bonus pro tips on annotations, motion, accessibility, and naming conventions



    🧠 Who It’s For

    • Designers tired of the “is this dev-ready?” guessing game

    • Product teams who want to ship faster and argue less

    • Devs who need designers to stop creating beautiful chaos

    • Junior designers who want to look senior as hell

    • Design leads coaching their team to level up



    🎯 Why This Guide Works

    Because most handoff guides were written like design school textbooks.

    This one was written by someone who builds the thing after you design it—and has spent two decades getting it wrong so you don’t have to.

    And yes, it’s funny. And friendly. And doesn’t talk down to you.



    🏁 TL;DR:

    If you want to hand off work that gets built right the first time—

    Without extra meetings.
    Without new tools.
    Without sacrificing your creativity.

    Then this PDF will change how you design forever.

    Really Good Work Inc. is a UI-obsessed product consultancy that’s been helping digital teams and brands work smarter, cleaner, and kinder for over 20 years. We focus on efficiency, inclusivity, sustainability and most importantly, making sure the people behind the work feel empowered as hell.

    If you’re looking to:

    • Really speed up the design to development handoff pipeline
    • Teach your design team just enough code to feel powerful in handoff meetings
    • Level up your own skills with a really friendly
    • or, build a design system AND a really well-built UI library with someone who knows their way around a tokens file.

    Then we should chat. I love doing that stuff.

    ✌️ Drew

    @reallygoodworkinc

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