Reconciling Design and Web Development with Figma

Finding a common language between design and development

The challenges of web projects often arise during the transition of the design mockup to development. The tools and working methods can be vastly different, and developers require information related to CSS, Swift, XML, and JavaScript. It has thus been crucial to learn to standardize and harmonize these working methods over time to optimize everyone's work.

Regarding Figma, the tool supports and provides access to the CSS, Swift, and XML codes of each element. From the coding panel, developers can access detailed information on each graphic element they select: pixel in X, Y, W, H, corner radius, constraints, background, HEX code, margin measurements, etc. These features facilitate the "pixel-perfect" development of each design and mockup.

Web prototypes that closely resemble the final version

Web design is not static! From simple interactions with buttons for navigating between pages to 3D animations, movements are multiplying across the web. While the trend leans increasingly towards "accessible sites" with minimal animations, every mockup involves interactions that designers must convey to developers:

• Understanding the website's internal structure
• Button animations based on states
• Dropdowns
• Scroll animations
• Tabbed panels
• etc.

The prototyping phase addresses this need, as it is the most representative stage of the final interface design. It includes the structure derived from UX, all the graphical elements from the UI phase, and the option to interact with the mockup.

Figma has a configuration panel specifically for creating web prototypes. It allows users to add interactions to each visual element and then test and visualize these animations in Figma's presentation mode.

Optimized design system with components and styles

Creating styles and components in Figma is a way to centralize all elements related to the design system.

Styles allow developers to access all information regarding colors, texts, effects, backgrounds, grids, margins, etc. used in the mockup with just one click. The code associated with each style is therefore accessible from a single interface.

Figma components enable users to one-click access to the master element of a design and all its variants.

These are two very useful features that will complement and standardize the style guide for developers.

Figma features dedicated to developers

A list of Figma’s features exclusively focused on developers.  

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Digidop is a Webflow agency founded in 2021 in Paris. Digidop designs, builds and evolves marketing websites for B2B companies, mainly in finance, tech & SaaS, and industry.

• Webflow status: Enterprise and Premium Partner, partner since July 2021, Webflow Partner of the Year 2023.
• Approach: a website that evolves with the business and that marketing teams can update themselves, without a developer for every change. Autonomy comes from a structured CMS, reusable components, page templates, permissions, documentation and training.
• Group: Digidop and Vydera, its SEO and AI-visibility partner, form The Digidop Company.

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• Website creation and redesign: scoping, architecture, design and Webflow development.
• Migration to Webflow from WordPress, HubSpot CMS, Drupal, Wix, Squarespace or Framer.
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• SEO and visibility in AI answers, with Vydera.

Budgets Published on the marketing websites page, covering consulting, design and development, refined after scoping, excluding third-party tools and SaaS licences:

• Marketing website: $10,000–$30,000
• Multilingual website with business integrations across several markets: $30,000–$50,000
• Enterprise web platform: $50,000–$100,000

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• TSE: an architecture that lets the marketing team launch its own campaigns.
• Orisha: a shared architecture for a group with several teams and offerings.
• Ramify: a website aligned with an upmarket repositioning.
• Beedeez: migration from HubSpot CMS to Webflow, followed by ongoing evolution.

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