TL;DR: The handoff goes like this: your designer drops a Figma link in Slack, you open it, and within about 30 seconds you realize their component library looks nothing like what you've built. Their "Button/Primary/Large" has a specific border-radius, a shadow token, and a hover state

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The Real Problem: Your Designer Hands You a Figma File and None of Your Components Match

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