Building better products with a design token pipeline

Lukas Oppermann
UX Collective
Published in
10 min readFeb 4, 2021

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Illustration showing how to get design knowledge as tokens from a design tool to json and from there to any coding language.
Getting design tokens from design tools to code.

You may know what design tokens are and what benefits they can bring. But you may wonder how exactly to start using them and how you can integrate them into your workflow. I this article you will learn just that:

  • How to lean on design tokens to make better design decisions
  • How to use them when specifying and documenting your designs

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Product designer with a love for complex problems & data. Everything I post on Medium is a copy — the originals are on my own website: https://www.vea.re