Before design tokens, every platform had its own colour values, spacing units, and font sizes ù often defined differently in Figma, iOS, Android, and web. Design tokens solve this by defining values once and distributing them everywhere.
A robust token architecture has three tiers: primitive tokens (raw values), semantic tokens (intent-based aliases), and component tokens (component-specific overrides).
The biggest design system challenge isn't building it ÔÇö it's getting teams to adopt and maintain it.
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