Design Tokens

Commençons par le début, les Design Tokens, c’est quoi ?

Définition

Par le Design Token Community Group (DTCG)

The single source of truth to name and store a design decision, distributed so teams can use it across design tools and coding languages.

Design Tokens Glossary | Design Tokens Community Group

The DTCG’s goal is to provide standards upon which products and design tools can rely for sharing stylistic pieces of a design system at scale.

https://www.designtokens.org/glossary/

Méthodologie

Les Design Tokens sont une méthodologie selon Jina Anne

Design Tokens are a methodology. IMHO, saying “design tokens are just variables” is like saying “responsive design is just media queries”. It’s a technology-agnostic architecture and process for scaling design across multiple platforms and devices, including native, and more.
— Jina Anne (@jina) November 14, 2018

et le produit des descisions de conception selon Nathan Curtis (EightShapes)

Tokens in Design Systems

10 Tips to Architect & Implement Design Decisions for Everyone

https://medium.com/eightshapes-llc/tokens-in-design-systems-25dd82d58421

Dans le Design System

Ils sont les particules sub-atomique selon Brad Frost

Extending Atomic Design

Atomic design is now over 6 years old (which is nuts!). I'm thrilled that all these years later the methodology continues to help teams think of their user interfaces as a hierarchical, interconnected set of components that build real product screens. I thought I'd be sick of talking about th

https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/extending-atomic-design/

Architecture

Et une couche de conception du système, selon Ben Callahan