Into Design Systems Weekly - Design Tokens 101
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Design Tokens 101 - Design strategy guide â designstrategy.guide How to set up design tokens and where to use them?
6 Design Tokens Tools to manage the connection between design and code â edwche.medium.com Design tokens are a powerful way to connect design and code. Here are some tools for managing design tokens to improve your workflow, align design and code better, and increase developer and designer productivity.
Link Figma and React using Figma Tokens â medium.com This means that you can create tokens such as âcolorsâ, âspacingâ, âborder-radiusâ, etc. that you can then apply to the whole document, styles or just the selection. The best part is that you canâŠ
Design Systems Checklist | Figma Community â www.figma.com Great things always start small Donât try to copy tech giants in the start. Start with the most used components, nail the workflow and continue working on. Small wins will bring you far. More resources -> designstrategy.guide
Creating a product without a design system leads to huge design debt â uxplanet.org Designing a product is complex, and the effects of not having a design system create significant debt. This article explains why some design teams cannot pay off their design debt because of a lack of or a poor design system.
The difference between Analytical Thinking and System Thinking â scribe.rip In two short videos Russell Ackoff (4min + 8min) explains how western societies have been trained on a singular pattern of thinking called Analytical Thinking: breaking things apart in order to understand how stuff works by seeing the whole as a sum of its parts.
My Five Biggest Design System Mistakes â medium.com A lot of design system articles focus on the ideal or best ways to approach certain problems. Thereâs a lot less written on what doesnât work, and what was learned from it.
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Vitamin by Decathlon â www.figma.com The official Figma account of Decathlon Design system
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