Design Tokens – Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens 2025-5

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Design Tokens – Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens 2025-5

Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens, Your organization supports many products, platforms, brands, and modes. The design system you lovingly care for unlocks much-needed efficiency & consistency, which is great! But each product has its own unique design needs, so how can we provide the benefits of shared systems without forcing everything to look the same? The answer is design tokens! For over a decade, we’ve helped dozens of organizations — including many Fortune 500 companies — create design token systems to strike the balance between consistency/efficiency and expression/innovation. It’s tricky work! We’re so excited to teach you all of our hard-earned lessons and share important concepts, Figma & code architecture, naming conventions, and processes to help you successfully create & maintain a robust design token system to serve your Multi-All-The-Things organization.

What you’ll learn

Why design tokens are critical for orgs supporting Multi-All-The-Things: products, platforms, brands, modes, & more
A 3-tiered design token architecture, color systems, typography systems, border, spacing, and more
Tools, structure, and pragmatic advice to help you conquer the biggest pain in the ass around creating a token system
Figma Variables, Style Dictionary, and other tools. The good, bad, and ugly of synchronization and automation
Tokens as a product. Figma team libraries, npm and it’s ilk. What to publish. Coordinating releases.
The user experience of design tokens; how design system consumers use design tokens
Pilot projects, token czars, branching, versioning, releasing, and governing a token system
Dark mode, rebrands, sub-brands, white-labeling, multiple product families, and more