Navigating the Product and Design Jira Process

This skill grounds Jira moves in the design team's current practice for plugging into engineering's Jira workflow. The goal: keep design decisions visible alongside the engineering work — without maintaining a parallel design tracker. Designs are attached directly to the engineering tickets they belong to, and everything substantive (30/60/90 critique iterations, copy, annotations) lives in Figma.

A note on status names below. Jira status labels appear here in the same casing Jira uses them — IN DESIGN, IN PROGRESS, DONE, DESIGN NEEDED, Ready for Dev. Copy them verbatim when transitioning tickets.

The structural rule

Designs are attached directly to tickets. The Figma file lives in the engineering Epic's "Design" field (or, for one-off engineering stories, in the story's "Design" field). There is no parallel design project, no parallel design Kanban, and no per-stage design tasks.