Design & UX · master area

Figma Organization

One file per Feature. One page per Epic. Frames named for the state they show. Findability is part of the deliverable — and the artefact that survives the designer leaving.

Owners: Designer Phase it lives in: What We Build (Volume III) The corpus principle this enacts: Every artifact in the chain is a hedge against the departure of the person who created it.

Where it lives in the chain

• What We Build · Design Shaping · file structure — the canon

How to do this

• Convention — file name matches Feature Brief title; page names match Epic names; frame names match state names from the user-flow design
• Convention — handoff annotations live in a → handoff page at the end of each Epic page; nothing else lives there
• Convention — components are linked to the team's design system library, never local copies

What good output looks like

A developer who has never opened this file before can find the screen for state partial-submission on Epic Grading by reading the page name and frame name alone — no DM needed. The frames the developer reads at handoff are stable; the designer's exploratory frames are on a separate → exploration page or archived. A Figma file that requires a tour to navigate is a Figma file that has stopped being a shared artefact.

The discipline is the same as code: names matter, structure matters, deletion matters. Dead frames are deleted, not hidden. Versions are dated, not "_v3_final_FINAL".

Related crafts

• Design System — what the components are linked from
• Handoff Annotations — what lives on the handoff page
• User Flow Design — where the state names originate