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title: 'Figma schmigma: Scamp simplifies the design handoff between designers and developers'
date: '2026-07-08T10:30:04-07:00'
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# Figma schmigma: Scamp simplifies the design handoff between designers and developers

If you’re a designer in the modern age, you’ve likely been there. You design something — every spacing decision, every color, every state, all carefully considered — and then it gets handed off to be rebuilt in code. Maybe by you. Maybe by someone else. But somewhere in that handoff — inevitably — something quietly disappears. Or breaks. That’s the problem [Scamp](https://www.scampdesign.app/) is built to fix.

[![](https://i0.wp.com/www.scampdesign.app/scamp-terminal.png?w=925&ssl=1)](https://www.scampdesign.app)It’s a local-first design tool where every rectangle you draw saves as a real TSX file. And every style you set saves as a real CSS Modules file. The canvas and the codebase are the same thing. No cloud. No account. Just a folder. And all the files that you need.

The [inspiration](https://www.angiehemans.com/scamp.html)…?

> I have spent over ten years working as both a UX designer and a developer. For most of that time I lived in the gap between the two disciplines — designing in Figma, then either rebuilding it myself in code or watching someone else rebuild it and lose something in the process.
> 
> The handoff is where weeks of careful decisions quietly disappear. Not because developers don’t care. Because the tools assume designers and developers work in different files, and that assumption creates a translation problem that no amount of better tooling can fully solve.

Like everything, Scamp is still a work in progress but v1.0.0 is downloadable right now. It’s open source under the Business Source License, for macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows, and Linux.

To try it yourself, download [Scamp](https://www.scampdesign.app/). Or star the [repo](https://github.com/angiehemans/scamp) to keep track of the progress.