A little theory.
A lot of practice.

Design tokens need more than semantics

Why recurring interface structures matter more than an ever-growing collection of tokens.

Design tokens: authoring vs consuming

The design systems we author are not the same thing as the tokens we consume.

Creating a flexible design token taxonomy for Intuit’s Design System

Building a shared vocabulary with the designers and engineers who use it.

Proportional design systems with Proportio.app

Extending typographic scales into a more systematic approach to component design.

Reinventing Adobe Spectrum’s colors

The science-backed thinking behind an adaptive enterprise color system.

Component-level Design Tokens: are they worth it?

Practical considerations for choosing the right level of abstraction.

Revisiting the anatomy of a design system

Looking beyond a component library to the connected systems that support it.

Component and token naming in Design Systems

Accessible color for design systems just got easier

Color scales for data visualization in Leonardo

Leonardo: an open source contrast-based color generator

Creating contrast-based themes with Leonardo

Colorimetry and the Cartography of Color

Adaptive Color in Design Systems

Introducing Adaptive Color Palettes

Adaptive Color in Spectrum, Adobe’s Design System