🌊Tokens, campfires, and more tokens

Our crew goes deep this month with tokens - why, how and what it is.

Hey September, bye August.

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Core, Semantic, and Specific tokens

Assaf Mashiah

TLDRed about streamlining product design communication in design & engineering teams, and the JUX approach to tokens types framework:
Core, Semantic, and Specific structure.

“The recipe to structure tokens includes creating all the core tokens first, followed by semantic and specific tokens for one mode, duplicating the token set for the other mode, and changing all the semantic and specific tokens to point to the correct core tokens for that mode.”

Campfires & new ideas

Tom Nipravsky

discussed about a product workshop we ran, and noted that our channel "competition_and_inspiration" on Slack was the fifth most popular channel. He immediately attributed this to the comfort we at JUX feel around the "campfire" of sharing new concepts and upcoming features from tools and industries. Building better products? It all begins with collaboration and idea-sharing.

An in-depth tokens guide

Erez Reznikov

wrote a 2-part series about the real value of tokens in his publication

Design Nuance

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Part 1, focuses on “Why tokens” and Part 2 dives into a more subjective prescription of how to conceptualize and model the work on tokens in a design system.

“…The right time to switch to tokens is now. If you don’t - other designers will, and you’ll be at a competitive disadvantage for product design jobs pretty soon.”

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