How to name design tokens in a Design System

The shapes of naming taxonomies for scale.

Kevin Muldoon
UX Collective
Published in
13 min readApr 16, 2023

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Hundreds of Design Systems have been created over the years. But despite this rich resource, Design System professionals still need a unified naming taxonomy to define design tokens at scale.

This lack of standardization makes every Design System a bespoke product that solves the needs of a…

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