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Using Figma Version History for better Design to Development Handoff
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Design to Development handoff can be, let's be honest, quite painful. No tool alone will ever be enough to throw some work at your development team and get an amazing result. There is nothing more important than working in a team, exchanging, asking and listening and learning during the collaboration of design and development. BUT there are great tools, tips and tricks to make this process much more efficient.
Part 1 — Using Figmas Version History for structured file handoff
In case you have not noticed, I am a huge, huge Figma fan, and you can find free basic and advanced Figma tutorial in my past articles. One of my favourite, quite hidden features is the version history. I use it for my own organization as well as sharing with the development team in a precise way. Let me show you how:
Open Version History on Figma
Via the burger menu navigate to File>Version History, and you will see it appear on the right-hand side of your screen. Figma autosaves versions of your file for you; this includes versions you create when you publish changes to a library. You can pan around and see a snapshot in time and jump between them and restore older versions. Great, right?
Save your Version for Handoff
You can also manually create your own version history. So once everything is ready for handoff to create a version and make sure you set up naming conventions in your team. I use DEV_DATE_TIME_initials so DEV_201124_1403_cv .You can use a completely different naming convention in your team make sure to stay consistent. Make a note in the comment section what you are handing off, (e.g. changed homepage footer section B). And done.
