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Date Published
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Julian Schneider Design Lead
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1218
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Summary

Highlight, a company focused on maintaining a visually appealing and consistent color system for its app, employs design tokens to streamline their design process and ensure consistency across their platform. Design tokens abstract design elements into reusable and shareable pieces of code, allowing for a single source of truth that promotes efficiency, collaboration, flexibility, and scalability. Highlight's implementation involves creating a foundational color scale that aligns with their brand identity and using tools like Tokens Studio to sync design tokens across Figma and their codebase, ensuring that both design and engineering teams remain in sync. This process allows for seamless updates and iterations across their app, minimizing communication gaps and improving workflow efficiency. Highlight invites others to share their experiences using design tokens to build cohesive design systems and component libraries.