What I organized

  1. 01

    A shared Figma file structure for handoff to three feature teams.

  2. 02

    Finding the required design by task.

  3. 03

    Task context alongside the decision and behavior rules.

The design had to be found

Two product managers, three analysts and three feature teams worked across the two catalogs. I reviewed requirements and prepared decisions for all three teams.

Handoff included organizing the material: engineers needed to find the design for their task and understand its context. I standardized this part of the work across Figma files.

Connected file structure to tasks

I standardized the Figma file structure so designs could be found by task. Handoff included task context, component states and edge cases.

My working notes separately record file structure, finding designs by task and Files updated. This confirms the subject of the work, but does not recover the exact page and section names or versioning rules.

Merging designs became a separate task

At a working meeting in September 2025, I proposed merging separate files into the main design file with all scenarios. I also wanted to update components and describe their behavior, so the team could view and read the search and filter rules.

The analyst agreed to track this as a Story Enabler: create a separate task and make it visible in the shared list. This is a concrete handoff-planning episode. The meeting records the plan; completion of this particular task has not yet been found in the archive.

Access and ownership are part of handoff

Alongside file structure, the Design handoff note raised questions about local Figma backups and who would be responsible for the files afterward.

This is part of the handoff: the structure needs to remain available to the next contributor. The source does not specify who took ownership or how permissions were arranged afterward.

What changed

Finding designs by task became part of the shared handoff standard. The career history records faster access to current designs; there is no separate measurement of search time.

The combined outcome of the handoff standard and rapid prototyping was 15% less engineering rework. The contribution of file organization cannot be isolated from that measurement; I am still recovering the method and comparison period.