Notes
Why I stopped handing off Figma filesThe handoff is not a step in the process. It is the place where the reasoning gets thrown away and only the picture survives.Row-level security is a design decisionWhere you put authorization decides what a forgotten filter costs. In the query it costs a data leak. In the database it costs an empty screen.Eight days is a constraint, not a boastThe number is not a measure of speed. It is a list of everything that did not get built, and the list is the interesting part.Two layouts beat one responsive layoutA phone is not a narrow desktop. Squeezing one layout through media queries produces a design that is wrong at both ends.Design tokens live in the browser alreadyEvery rendered page is a complete token set. The work is not extraction, it is deciding which of the four hundred greys were ever meant to be a system.What a plugin panel teaches about densityThree hundred and twenty pixels, inside somebody else's interface, competing with the file the person actually came to work on. Nothing survives that is not load-bearing.Timezones and the deadline that driftsA deadline is a day, not a moment. Store it as a moment and it will quietly land on the wrong square of somebody else's calendar.Reading a deck instead of retyping itEvery redesign of a presentation starts with a .pptx and two bad options. Screenshots give you nothing to edit, and rebuilding by hand costs the afternoon before the work begins.