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Design System Verification
12.1🔒The Problem: Figma-to-Code DriftThe gap between what designers create in Figma and what developers implement in code is a persistent source of visual bugs. A designer…
12.2🔒What to Verify
12.3🔒Automated Design Token Verification
12.4🔒Figma API IntegrationCommon Mistake: Comparing Figma values directly to CSS values without accounting for unit differences. Figma uses pixels, but CSS…
12.5🔒Design Token Workflow
12.6🔒CI Integration for Design System VerificationDesign system verification prevents the gradual divergence between design intent and implementation that manual review inevitably misses…
12.7🔒ExercisesBeginner: Create a tokens.json file for a small design system with at least five colors, three typography variants, and four spacing…
12.8🔒Q&AChapter Quiz1. What is "Figma-to-code drift" and why does it accumulate over time? 2. Name five aspects of a design system that can be automatically…
12.9🔒Career Translation- Built a design token verification pipeline that compared Figma specifications against browser-computed CSS values for colors, typography…
12.10🔒Q&AInterview Depth CheckPrompt: You implement design token verification and discover that 30% of your components have spacing values that differ from the tokens by…