
A strong system frees you up to design faster.

It ensures your design is consistent: If you take the time before diving in on a project to get your system right, you won’t waste time needing to think about type sizing or spacing. Once you have set all of your rules, make sure the design links back to these global styles. Make sure you clarify how you want the type to behave before you hand off the files. Does the type scale up dynamically? Or does it jump to a different size when it reaches a break point. Then you need to set rules to clarify how typography works in responsive. When I make type styles I usually create a desktop and mobile set of type sizes. If you have an H1 on desktop that is 72px, you may not want it to be the same size on mobile. Type Style guide by Ryan Quintal Create responsive rules for type styles
#Imageoptim sketch free
I use a free tool called ImageOptim for this. Part of my workflow now is to compress images before sending them to developers. This impacts page ranking, overall site performance, and the credibility of the site in the eyes of search engines.Ībout 21% of any given websites file size comes from images. The larger a website, the slower it may load. Here are some of the pieces of the process we often miss: Image Optimization Armed with all of this information, I started to make a checklist we use for every web design project we tackle. We should at least have our process for design handoff nailed down at this point.įrom my experience at multiple agencies in the last few years, we don’t.Īt my current job, I’ve had multiple conversations with our developers to better understand their needs, pain points and ways designers can help make the process better.


We’re supposed to have flying cars and space travel. Creating a Better Design Handoff Experience For Developers
