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- Individuals explicitly, and directly requested a better set of semantic tokens so that they could apply styles with an understanding of the rationale , and to clearly communicate between designers and developers regarding how to construct their components.
from Creating a flexible design token taxonomy for Intuitās Design System
Yehezkel Lipinsky added
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- Within the past few years, tech companiesā digital design all started to look the same: marginally, monotonously quirky; safe. From the sans-serif fonts to the muted pastel color palette, the stark white backgrounds to the curvy shape and hue of the buttons, most modern software blurs together into a familiar, squint-and-youāll-confuse-it aesthetic... See more
from Why We Crave Software With Style Over "Branding" by Andreessen Horowitz (AZ)
sari added
- Tools that fit across categories can be especially powerful. For example, Modulz* is a visual component editor that empowers teams to design, develop, document and deploy a design system, without code. It looks and feels like a design software but gives designers the power of code
from The rise of superpower tech by Vedika Jain
sari added
- Token names are how design tokens are referenced and identified by consumers. But at the core, a ānameā is more of an ordered representation of a catalog system and API. This catalog system and API is also known as a token taxonomy. Building a clear taxonomy assisted us in appropriately and consistently classifying tokens, as well as providing a sc... See more
from Creating a flexible design token taxonomy for Intuitās Design System
Yehezkel Lipinsky added
- I used this system to design self-documenting components that were easy to develop against, and allowed the rest of the team to build new and consistent UI without needing me.
from Redesigning an App, One Day a Week at a Time by Pirijan Ketheswaran
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