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UI Breakfast: UI/UX Design and Product Strategy
Jane Portman
Episode 292: Using Tokens in Design Systems with Jan Six
MAR 28, 202532 MIN
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Description
How can tokens help your design and development teams become more efficient? Our guest today is Jan Six, staff product designer at GitHub and co-creator of Tokens Studio. You’ll learn how design components and tokens correlate on a technical level, why adoption is the biggest challenge in design systems, how you can get started with creating your own systems, and more.
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Show Notes
Tokens Studio
Naming Tokens in Design Systems – an article by Nathan Curtis
The Many Faces of Themeable Design Systems – an article by Brad Frost
Primer – GitHub’s design system
Visit Jan’s website
Follow Jan on Bluesky
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