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Designing Websites for Clients: Figma File Phases and Version Tracking

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When designing websites for clients, does your Figma file resemble anything like this or am I the only one?

ie. breaking pages up into phases, leaving a record of versions, etc.

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it pretty much looks like this. i’m curious if there’s a better way

Looks like this, in fact. ]

Our files look like this as well. We also have a separate share file for the client so they cant see the concepts and other pages

We do this exact thing. I think having the team maintain two files is cumbersome, actually, but some clients can get a little nitpicky with WIP concepts. If anyone has a better way to do this, I’d love to hear it.

I’m curious how you feel about adding emojis to page names? I notice yours notably has none.

yeah I haven't really thought about adding them - I've seen them in other files before. I generally find them to be distracting more than helpful. I think mostly though its trying to find the right emoji for the page. If done correctly, I could see some value in it.

That’s how I feel about them as well, which is why we haven’t added any to ours. Thanks for your input 🙏

we usually just copy and paste the design page into the share file. When there's a V2, we create a design v2 page in the share so the client can see the old version as well

this is one of our latest files

I know this thread is a bit old... this is ours. We have a "Design Playground" for ideas not finalized or approved. then once approved it goes into the "Website" or "App" page, and the rejected ideas go to the archive page!

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