Moving from a polished mockup to working code is one of the most error-prone steps in interface development. Designs that look complete on a canvas often leave gaps: What happens when a field is empty? What exactly is the spacing between list items? Which screen comes next after a failed login? Transition strategies from design to code are the practices that close those gaps before coding begins, and that keep the build honest once it is underway.
In this module you are building a functional prototype of your own design, so you are both the designer and the developer handing off to yourself — or to a teammate. Four practices matter here: preparing assets and specifications so nothing has to be guessed, building reusable components first rather than screen-by-screen, reviewing the build against the design in short cycles, and catching design drift when implementation choices quietly diverge from the agreed interface.
The videos below demonstrate these practices in Figma, the tool most commonly used for this workflow. As you watch, pay attention to what information the designer deliberately attaches to a file — annotations, flow diagrams, spacing values, exported assets, naming conventions — and ask whether your own project file carries enough of that information for someone to code from it without asking you questions. Also notice how components and styles in the design map onto reusable units in code; that mapping is the backbone of a component-first build.
A long-form walkthrough of developer handoff in Figma, covering how to prepare a design file so that engineers can read specifications, measurements, and assets directly from it. Based on its title and description, it likely addresses file organization, naming, styles and components, and exporting assets for implementation. Expect practical, tool-centered demonstration rather than abstract theory.
Jesse Showalter is a well-known design/front-end educator whose handoff tutorials are widely used, and this video maps directly onto the Design Handoff and Asset Preparation subtopic while touching on component structure.
A short, focused look at how one designer preps a finalized file before giving it to engineers, emphasizing user flows and written annotations rather than isolated screens. The description makes the core argument explicit: individual screens do not capture the full user journey, so flows and notes are needed to communicate states, transitions, and edge cases.
It targets exactly the information that usually goes missing in handoff — flow context and annotated behavior — which is the main source of design drift once coding starts, and at under eight minutes it is an efficient companion to the longer tutorials.
An overview of Figma's Dev Mode, the feature set built specifically for the design-to-code transition. It likely demonstrates inspecting elements for measurements and generated code snippets, marking sections as ready for development, and tracking changes between design and build.
Dev Mode is the concrete mechanism most teams now use for iterative build and continuous review, so this video shows how component specs and updates flow to developers and how drift between file and code can be detected.
Together these videos support MO1 by showing how mockups, components, and assets are prepared and inspected so that a functional prototype can be coded from them with fidelity to the original interface design. The emphasis on flows, annotations, and documented states also feeds MO2, since the same flow documentation that guides developers becomes the basis for realistic task scripts in a user testing plan. Finally, the inspection and review practices demonstrated — comparing built screens against annotated specifications and marking work ready for development — give you a concrete method for MO3, verifying that the prototype actually meets the specified interface requirements before participants ever see it.
These videos were chosen from YouTube on October 3, 2026. Each has captions; the player turns them on. Videos on YouTube can be changed or removed — if one no longer plays, tell your instructor. If a player does not appear, use its Watch on YouTube link.