The Figma File That Was More Painful Than Helpful It came in as a Slack message Friday afternoon. The design team had finished the Figma file for the new site redesign. It was comprehensive. Every component was specified. Every state was documented. Every interaction was prototyped. The design manager sent the link with a message: "Ready for development whenever you are." The dev team opened the file Monday morning with legitimate hope that a detailed design specification would mean faster development and fewer design-to-code translation problems. By Wednesday, the hope had transformed into frustration. The spacing in the design was specified in pixels but WordPress's Elementor used Elementor's own spacing system that did not map directly to pixel values. The hover animations in Figma were buttery smooth 300ms ease-out curves that looked terrible when implemented in CSS because of performance constraints in IE11 and older Safari versions that the design spec had not accounted for.…