alt Hacker News> Engineers + product work together to build a figma
I'm not going to tell you that what works for you doesn't work for you, but just to contribute another perspective, elaborate Figma mockups are a bit of a red flag for me. They show that a significant amount of time has been invested in a high-fidelity design of a complex UI that has never once been used do to any actual work. It's impossible to know if a UI is any good if you haven't used it in anger. A rough functional prototype might take longer to make (and, crucially, doesn't look as good in company-internal slide presentations), but it's vastly more valuable IMHO.
That’s a good point. The figmas we build are not high fidelity. But they’re more than wireframes. The point is to get everyone on the same page conceptually as to what is going to be built, but the details are still left as an iterative process for the engineer implementing.
The point of the figma is to answer the question “what visuals will help ops, legal, and engineers be on the same page when discussing” and NOT “the button should be 48px down”. UX specific “extras” like confirmation modals, etc. are never added because that doesn’t answer the first question.