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Accessible color for design systems just got easier

Over two years ago, we released Leonardo: the first-of-its-kind contrast ratio based color generation tool. Since then, Leonardo has…

May 9, 2022

Accessible color for design systems just got easier

May 9, 2022

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Design Systems Collective

Design tokens: authoring vs consuming

A critical assessment of how we create and manages tokens.

Nov 11, 2024

code variable name “color-surface-background-hover” with script annotation below reading “this is not a design token” in French, imitating the artist Magritte’s famous painting “The Treachery of Images”

Nov 11, 2024

Responsibility and opinions

I’ve worked in design systems long enough to get some strong opinions about things. I’ve learned a difficult lesson that I want to share in…

Jun 10, 2024

AI generated image of an intense boardroom scene with team members clashing over differing opinions and corporate directions

Jun 10, 2024

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Design Systems Collective

When “semantic tokens” are no longer semantic.

Design tokens are now safe to consider a common, basic practice among design systems teams. And although the names of these types can vary.

Mar 14, 2024

When “semantic tokens” are no longer semantic.

Mar 14, 2024

Synchronizing Figma variables with Design Tokens

Summer of 2023, Figma announced Figma variables: an internal feature that mirrors the functionality of Tokens within Figma, along with REST…

Oct 17, 2023

Oct 17, 2023

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

This article covers how we evolved our tokens at Intuit to create a flexible taxonomy for a small but powerful set of semantic tokens.

Jun 20, 2023

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

Jun 20, 2023

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Proportional design systems with Proportio.app

It started with a design system request. Our design system team was asked to add a larger size option to our existing button component…

May 8, 2023

Screen shot of Proportio.app user interface showing header bar with options Typography, Shape, and Components. Panel displays configuration options for typography and icons, with main content area displaying typographic and iconographic scales

May 8, 2023

Component-level Design Tokens: are they worth it?

There are lots of resources for learning what design tokens are, how to use them, and their benefits to design systems. This is not that…

Oct 4, 2022

Pile of various gold coins, used as a metaphor for a large quantity of design tokens.

Oct 4, 2022

Color scales for data visualization in Leonardo

Creating custom color scales for data visualization can sometimes be a burden. With Leonardocolor.io, it just got a whole lot easier.

May 9, 2022

Color scales for data visualization in Leonardo

May 9, 2022

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UX Collective

Revisiting the anatomy of a design system

Over the years, a lot has evolved about what a design system is what it’s comprised of. An article from Brad Frost inspired me to revisit…

Dec 7, 2021

Revisiting the anatomy of a design system

Dec 7, 2021

Nate Baldwin

Nate Baldwin

Design Systems @Adobe Spectrum. Intensity curious about color, visual perception, and the systemization of design.

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