Design Tokens

Design tokens have been embraced across the industry as a simple yet powerful way to align design, engineering and product teams on the most core decisions regarding brand and experience styling – and to help standardize their implementation.

We’ve organized our perspective into a few key areas we see as critical to building a sustainable and scalable workflow around design tokens.

Are you trying to build a single design system that powers wildly different-looking brands and experiences? Theming unlocks the ability to use your design system across multiple brands, products, and audiences. Join Jake Love, Knapsack's Senior Solutions Engineer, for a 30 minute deep dive into theming. You'll learn why it's important to incorporate theming early on, key considerations as you build out tokens, and see an example of design system theming in action.

Knapsack’s Senior Solutions Engineer Jake Love joins us for a 30-minute conversation that will give teams more insight into the role design tokens play in a successful design system. Gain an understanding of exactly what design tokens are (and aren’t), ways designers and developers can use tokens in their everyday workflows, and how Knapsack’s token engine helps teams work more efficiently.

This episode is a little bit longer—okay, a lot longer—than our usual. Chrome developer advocate Adam Argyle and Chris Strahl talk about tokens in all their glory without worrying about time limits. If you’ve ever wondered about the limits of tokens and what’s left to explore in the token stratosphere, check out this transcript.

We spoke to experts from some of the world's most advanced design systems about design tokens: best practices, potential advances, and their importance to the design systems community. Our findings are packaged in a downloadable report.