This is usually where collaboration breaks:

• handoff trap: design wanders ahead for weeks, convinced it’s at the finish line, waving mockups at engineering like “hey, just build this.” We all know how this one ends.


• “my Figma is better than production” fork: both sides move, but not together. By the time they meet in the middle, they’re holding two

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The ideal isn’t to erase the difference between design and engineering. Each side has its depth, taste, and craft. The goal is simpler: maintain a shared language of making.

I think that overlap, that shared percentage of language, is the real definition of velocity.