Figma/Payload Feature Prototype
A product design case study exploring how a Figma-style feature could improve design-dev collaboration by attaching structured implementation notes, accessibility requirements, content rules, and developer-facing context to components and screens.
- Product Design
- Design Systems
- Payload
- Figma
- Technical Prototyping
- Design-Dev Collaboration
Highlights
- Exploring a Figma-style feature for attaching structured implementation context to components and screens
- Framing accessibility requirements, content rules, edge cases, and developer notes as product objects
- Prototyping how design-dev collaboration can become clearer before engineering handoff
- Planning a Payload-backed model for future demos without starting the CMS migration in this site
Direction
This future case study will explore how a Figma-style feature could improve design-dev collaboration by making implementation context part of the design object itself.
The prototype direction is to attach structured notes to components and screens: accessibility requirements, content rules, interaction states, edge cases, acceptance criteria, and developer-facing implementation context.
- 01 Design object
A component, pattern, or screen that needs implementation context.
- 02 Structured context
Accessibility, content, behavior, constraints, and edge cases become explicit fields instead of loose comments.
- 03 Developer handoff
The product surface helps teams understand intent, requirements, and tradeoffs before build.
- 04 Payload model
A future prototype will use Payload to test how the content model could support real authoring and review workflows.
The placeholder is intentionally lightweight until the product brief, data model, and prototype artifacts are ready.
What Will Be Added Later
- Product brief and problem framing.
- Payload data model.
- Prototype screenshots.
- Demo video.
- GitHub repo.
- Reflection on design and implementation tradeoffs.