Ever hand over a clean design concept to be built, only to watch the implementation turn into an unrecognizable mess of misaligned spacings and broken hierarchies?
I ran into this exact friction point recently when trying to sync up visual assets with layout builds. The root cause wasn't lack of effort—it was a broken translation layer between visual spacing tokens and actual layout rules. When spacing values are picked at random instead of tied to a strict mathematical scale, the final build always suffers from layout drift.
The fix is locking down strict design tokens early so that every spacing and sizing decision maps cleanly to a predictable rule.
How do you handle visual handoffs? Do you rely on rigid design tokens to keep things aligned, or do you find yourself constantly fixing layout discrepancies during implementation?
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