Design Tokens

<h2> The Invisible Tax of Manual Translation </h2> <p>Picture this scenario playing out in organizations everywhere. Your design team finalizes a comprehensive color palette

<p><em>The whole industry seems to have agreed on a standard for design tokens. The shift it sets up is still on its way.</em></p> <p>Design tokens are not new. The term was

<p>"Why do you need 3 layers of CSS variables? Just use brand-800 directly."</p> <p>That was me. Here's what changed my mind.</p> <p>I made a table of how shades map in light vs

<p><strong>DESIGN.md is an open format from Google Labs that describes a design system to AI coding agents.</strong> It pairs machine-readable design tokens (YAML front matter)

<p>Design systems exist to keep products consistent. So what happens when the system and the product are both AI-generated, in the same session.... by the same tool?</p> <p>I ran