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Figma Development
WAYF is a Figma Development Agency:
From Pixels to Product.
Design tool that developers actually open.
Figma changed how we work with design. Not because it's another tool in the stack — but because it removed the wall between designers and developers. Real-time collaboration. Components that mirror code. Handoff that doesn't require archaeology.
We're a development agency, not a design studio. But we work in Figma daily — reviewing designs, inspecting specs, prototyping interactions, sometimes designing ourselves when projects need it. It's where ideas become interfaces before they become code.
What We Use Figma
Design review and feedback. Comments directly on frames. Questions answered in context, not lost in Slack threads. Revisions tracked visibly. Designers and developers looking at the same thing at the same time.
Spec inspection for development. Spacing, colors, typography — extracted directly from source files. No guessing what the designer meant. No separate spec documents that drift from actual designs. Dev Mode gives us what we need to build accurately.
Prototyping before code. Interactive flows tested before development begins. Click-through prototypes that stakeholders can review. Assumptions validated when changes cost minutes, not days.
Component architecture alignment. Figma components often mirror React components. When designers structure files well, the translation to code is direct. We collaborate on component naming and organization so design systems and codebases stay in sync.
Quick design when needed. Not every project comes with a design team. For internal tools, MVPs, or iterations on existing products, we design directly in Figma. Functional over beautiful, but intentional about both.
Everyone in the same file. No version confusion. No "which file is latest?" No emailing PNGs back and forth.
Inspect panel shows CSS, dimensions, assets. Dev Mode organizes what developers need. Export options that don't require designer intervention.
Design systems built properly translate to code cleanly. Variants map to component props. Auto-layout matches flexbox thinking. The mental models align.
Not everything needs Principle or After Effects. Figma's prototyping handles most interaction design. When it doesn't, we know where to reach for more.
Content population, accessibility checks, design tokens export. We use plugins selectively — the ones that solve real problems, not the ones that add process.
Figma In Our Workflow
Design and development aren't phases — they're conversations. Figma is where those conversations happen visibly.
Designers share work in progress. Developers ask questions before building. Product managers comment on flows. Everyone sees the same state. When we deliver code, it matches the designs because we built from the source, not from screenshots.
For projects with external design teams, we work in their Figma files directly.
For projects where we lead design, clients see work evolve in real-time. No big reveals. No surprises. No "that's not what we meant."



