Figma handoff

When a Figma design becomes a finished website in the browser, Perxel's first goal is to keep the designer's creative intent and visual language intact. Besides a clear Figma file, that takes designer and developer agreeing on how to think about responsive behaviour, typography, web interaction and the structure of the design.

Figma is the reference, the browser is reality

Figma is a static environment where the designer controls the exact canvas size and the position of every element. A real website is dynamic. It runs on many screen sizes, is shaped by each operating system's font rendering and by differences between browsers, and is bound by the limits of HTML and CSS.

Figma is the authoritative reference. At the screen size the agency designed for, Perxel aims for the site to match the drawing. More importantly, the site also has to behave naturally when the window is resized or the real content arrives. A developer doesn't just read static pixel values from Figma but needs to understand the layout logic and the intent behind it.

Bringing in the developer at the right time

Perxel doesn't treat early developer involvement in every creative decision as a requirement, because every creative agency has its own process. Figma recommends involving developers early, and that approach helps a lot when the design has many interactions or demanding technical requirements. But technical advice at the right moment is what adds the most value, so surprises don't appear after the client has approved the design.

Knowing a technical limit, or how complex an animation really is, before the client signs off lets the agency decide on its own terms: keep it, simplify part of it or adjust the project scope. Perxel is available for technical advice whenever a designer or agency needs it.

Design, responsive behaviour and production

Natural responsive behaviour

Responsive doesn't mean the designer has to design every breakpoint. On many projects the agency delivers only the desktop design and Perxel builds the responsive version for mobile.

Rather than just scaling things down or hiding elements, Perxel reworks the layout: it changes the grid, adjusts typographic spacing and tunes touch targets, so the experience and the hierarchy of the original design carry over.

Aligning on typography

Typography affects the vertical rhythm of the whole page. A small difference in how Chrome, Safari, macOS or Windows render a font can move a heading onto another line and change the height of a block.

So Perxel checks fonts from the first days of development. If the design uses a font outside Google Fonts, the agency needs to provide .woff or .woff2 files so it displays properly on the web.

A well-organised design system

A Figma file organised with Components, Styles and Variables lets a developer quickly tell which patterns are shared and which are deliberate exceptions. That speeds up the build and keeps the site consistent as it grows to more pages.

A clear source of truth

To spare the developer from guessing which frame is the final one among many experiments, the designer only has to organise the file clearly. A separate page for the final design, clear naming or Figma's "Ready for development" status gives both sides a shared language.

Design with real content

A real website runs on live content, not short placeholder text. Real content can be two or three times longer, which changes the height of cards and breaks the balance of a layout. Using reasonably complete content in Figma helps the site avoid unexpected display problems once it is live.

Telling a story with web animation

Web animation is one of Perxel's core strengths, but a good site needs one consistent motion story across the page, not a patchwork of separate effects.

Motion needs rhythm, pace and a clear link between sections. An important section may need strong movement to draw attention, while the sections after it should stay quieter so people can focus on the content. Perxel's technical advice tells the designer what is feasible, how it affects loading performance and what works best on mobile, before anything is built.

Footnotes

1. Figma: Design handoff
2. Figma: A guide to developer handoff