“Creating a Flexible Design Token Taxonomy for Intuit’s Design System” by Nate Baldwin examines how to improve Intuit’s design tokens to establish a clear and flexible taxonomy. This is vital for Intuit, which houses various products with their respective design systems. The challenge was developing a limited yet powerful semantic token set to provide context and rationale behind design decisions, aiding Intuit’s design systems in supporting dark mode and facilitating better communication between designers and developers.
Useful for design system managers and practitioners, the piece dives into the issues encountered, criteria for the new taxonomy, and solutions implemented, including use case coverage and naming conventions. It concludes with a success evaluation, reinforced by real-world testing with products and users.
