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Best Plugin Finalist

Specs

Nathan Curtis - Directed Edges

About the plugin

Designers the world over spend countless hours creating design specs to hand off component and page designs to developers, concentrating on things like "What's it include?", "How does it vary?" , and "How do things fit together?". It took a seasoned, efficient designer 2-4 hours to produce that for one component. Nathan wrote a plugin that produces that same output in 2-4 seconds. Given that 1,000s of designers toil doing this for 10s/100s of components, I sought to save our industry 1,000,000 hours or more.

Why it's valuable

Design handoffs often resemble archaeological expeditions, with developers spending valuable time excavating specifications from complex design files, but this plugin transforms that process by automatically surfacing critical implementation details. The tool addresses a fundamental scaling problem where sophisticated design systems—incorporating complex theming, accessibility requirements, and composable architectures—create widening gaps between design intent and implementation. Teams report significant improvements in development velocity and consistency, as developers now receive clear, actionable documentation alongside design assets instead of interrupting designers with specification questions or making implementation assumptions. This proves especially valuable for enterprise teams managing design systems across multiple platforms and product generations, where precision in component specifications directly impacts long-term maintainability, essentially eliminating a common bottleneck in the design-to-code workflow and allowing teams to focus their energy on crafting better user experiences rather than deciphering design intent.

Highlight

"This really is the best documentation plugin ever! ✨ super easy to use, quick and efficient, allows to customize the selection of the documentation parts we need, and overall my handoff process has improve so much and is pretty clean now! Devs love it too haha thank you Nathan for building this design wonder! 💙" – Specs user

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Timeline

  1. Nominations will be open from Tuesday 13 May. If you have any questions about the nomination process, then check out the FAQs, or if your question isn't answered, please get in touch at community@zeroheight.com

    13 May, 2025

  2. Once the nominations are closed, we'll be collating the longlist and working through it to determine a shortlist. The shortlist will be determined by the team at zeroheight, and will be based on uniform judging criteria (which we will share in a month or two). With the shortlist creation, we aim to remove as much bias as possible and give everyone a fair chance across the board.

    22 August, 2025

  3. In September, the shortlist will be announced, including public voting! We'll notify all folks as to whether they made the shortlist. The judges will then individually judge each shortlisted entry. We'll also have public voting on each category live on the site!

    15 September, 2025

  4. Once all the judges and public votes are counted, we'll then be able to determine the winner for each category, based off a weighted compilation of votes.

    3 November, 2025

  5. In December, we'll gather the community together at an event in London to announce the winners live. We'll also be live-streaming the ceremony for those who can't make it. The live event will be invite only, but we'll offer the community a chance to apply for a ticket later in the year! We'll also post the results to the zeroheight site the day after the event.

    December 2025 (TBA)

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