How much responsive design should designers actually hand off?
I've been thinking about how much detail designers really need to provide for responsive layouts.
Traditionally, we'd prepare desktop, tablet, and mobile designs, sometimes with specific breakpoints and detailed behavior for each screen size.
But now that developers are also using AI coding tools, I'm starting to question whether defining every breakpoint is still the best use of a designer's time.
I think designers should still define the important layout changes, content priorities, and interactions. But do we really need to specify every intermediate screen size?
Maybe it's more useful to define the rules and let developers handle the details during implementation.
I'm curious how other teams approach this.
How much responsive behavior do your designers specify before handing things off to development?
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wait if you just hand over the rules how do you know the AI wont completely wreck the navigation bar?
Just set up a design token system for your spacing and typography scales. It gives the developers constraints so their tooling generates predictable layouts without needing mockups for every screen.