The Problem
Design handoff remains one of the most broken workflows in product development. Designers create high-fidelity mockups in Figma, then spend hours annotating intent that gets lost in translation. Developers interpret static frames, miss interaction nuances, and rebuild what was already designed — introducing drift with every implementation.
The tools on both sides have improved — but the gap between design intent and implementation reality hasn't closed. Converge explores what a product would look like if it treated that gap as the core problem, rather than bolting collaboration features onto existing design or dev tools.
My Role
This concept comes directly from years of experiencing the handoff problem firsthand — as a designer working closely with developers and seeing how much context evaporates between "design complete" and "implementation complete."
I'm leading product thinking, competitive analysis of the current tooling landscape, and designing the interaction model for a system that captures design intent in a way developers can actually consume — without requiring designers to write code or developers to learn a new design tool.
Full case study in progress
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