Automating the Design-to-Development Handoff Companies need to adopt some carefully chosen ways to alleviate the above- mentioned challenges during handoff. The optimal way to structure this handoff is to incorporate tech tools and processes that can automate key steps, like providing interactive prototypes, gathering teams and assets on one board, and maintaining documentation to avoid misunderstandings between designer and developer. Let’s take a deeper look at some ways to automate your design-to-development handoff: Task management and organization Getting all teams on one project board from the very beginning is essential because it automates the overall workflow for design and development. Asana and Jira are popular task management tools for grouping all employees in a single communication loop.These tools enable everyone to see who is working on which task, and it provides total visibility into the content and objectives of each task. They automatically create a project board with timelines, task prioritization, and team-level tracking. They also act as a home for all necessary assets of the project. Cloud tools to streamline communication It is sometimes physically impossible to get all team members to work in the same place and be aware of each other’s progress. One best practice here is to use cloud-based tools to streamline product management. Mockplus provides the functionality to edit and share PRDs online, offering faster design and better collaboration features. It displays design files and documents from a bird’s-eye view for each product and allows one-click downloads. It also has the ability to accelerate a design-to-development handoff by generating historical versions of source files, which eliminates traditional ways of archiving files and data Google Drive and Dropbox can also be adopted to make assets accessible to each team on the cloud, although they also present a risk of over- documentation if not properly organized. 35