Design tokens > Designer pilot
We are looking for designers willing to pilot using design tokens in Figma, to help us learn and improve.
As part of gitlab-org&10238 we want to design token.
We hope design tokens will:
- Enable consistent and meaningful abstraction and application
- Codify design decisions
- Synchronize design and development tooling
- Make design decisions easier — purpose and intent
- Support efforts like themes (nav) and modes (light, dark, high contrast)
If we do this we think we can:
- Make designer and developer handover more efficient
- Speed up feature design, validation, and review, by providing easy to understand and use ‘micro decisions’
- Prepare the way to enable high impact product features (like dark mode), without requiring feature teams to do twice as much work
"What do I need to do?"
Being part of the pilot will require active participation, but in a way that we hope won't require much extra time.
If you are interested in participating please reply to #1771 (comment 1755996892)
We will start with 1 or 2 people, and gradually expand to others as we gain confidence in the approach. We only have capacity to support those in the participants table below.
Participants |
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@veethika @nickleonard @afracazo @cam.x |
Instructions for participants
- Read about design tokens in Pajamas.
- Enable the Pilot: Design tokens library in your files
- Review the documentation
- Make a continual effort to use the design tokens according to the documentation, applying token updates as soon as they publish
- Talk to us regularly about your experiences in this issue and #f_design_tokens
Beginnings
Right now, we have reduced the scope of tokens to text color, and we expect this to grow as we learn more.
Considerations
- We are still figuring this out
- We hope things will change fast as we learn
- We will help you fix your files if they break as part of this
- Your experience will be instrumental to shaping the future of design and development at GitLab
What else are we working on?
Parallel to this effort we are figuring out fun things like:
- Sync code and Figma
- Adding and removing tokens processes and workflows
- Documentation needs
- Additional tooling