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UI Breakfast: UI/UX Design and Product Strategy · Mar 28, 2025 · 32 min

Episode 292: Using Tokens in Design Systems with Jan Six

How can tokens help your design and development teams become more efficient? Our guest today is Jan Six, staff product designer at GitHub and co-creator of Tokens Studio. You’ll learn how design components and tokens correlate on a technical level, why adoption is the biggest challenge in design systems, how you can get started with creating your own systems, and more. Podcast feed: subscribe to https://feeds.simplecast.com/4MvgQ73R in your favorite podcast app, and follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Podcasts. Show Notes Tokens Studio Naming Tokens in Design Systems – an article by Nathan Curtis The Many Faces of Themeable Design Systems – an article by Brad Frost Primer – GitHub’s design system Visit Jan’s website Follow Jan on Bluesky This episode is brought to you by Wix Studio — the new web platform for agencies and enterprises. The magic of Wix Studio is its advanced design capabilities which makes website creation efficient and intuitive. Here are a few things you can do: Work in sync with your team on one canvas Reuse templates, widgets and sections across sites Create a client kit for seamless handovers And leverage best-in-class SEO defaults across all your Wix sites Step into Wix Studio to see more at wix.com/studio Interested in sponsoring an episode? Learn more here. Leave a Review Reviews are hugely important because they help new people discover this podcast. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave a review on iTunes. Here’s how.

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How can tokens help your design and development teams become more efficient? Our guest today is Jan Six, staff product designer at GitHub and co-creator of Tokens Studio. You’ll learn how design components and tokens correlate on a technical level, why adoption is the biggest challenge in design systems, how you can get started with creating your own systems, and more.

Podcast feed: subscribe to https://feeds.simplecast.com/4MvgQ73R in your favorite podcast app, and follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Podcasts.

Show Notes

This episode is brought to you by Wix Studio — the new web platform for agencies and enterprises. The magic of Wix Studio is its advanced design capabilities which makes website creation efficient and intuitive. Here are a few things you can do:

  • Work in sync with your team on one canvas
  • Reuse templates, widgets and sections across sites
  • Create a client kit for seamless handovers
  • And leverage best-in-class SEO defaults across all your Wix sites

Step into Wix Studio to see more at wix.com/studio

Interested in sponsoring an episode? Learn more here.

Leave a Review

Reviews are hugely important because they help new people discover this podcast. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave a review on iTunes. Here’s how.

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