Inside Design Tokens: Definitions & Traits
Over the past three years, I’ve researched design tokens for usage in Theemo and I’m sharing my discoveries in this article series.
Inside Design Tokens: Features
Features encode user preferences, inherit behavior(s) and are communicated by several principals through agents. Design tokens may or may not support features.
Inside Design Tokens: The Three Class Token Society
Design tokens are often grouped based on their phenomenal reference sequence. From basic, over semantic to component tokens. This article compares this organization with a model based architecture and figures out the advantages and disadvantages.
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides.
Serving the For You Feed - AT Protocol
How the maintainer of the popular For You feed serves it from their living room!
tokens are getting more expensive
"language models will get cheaper by 10x" will not save ai subscriptions from the short squeeze
Misreading as Foraging: How Systems Get Used for Things They Weren't Made For - Astral's Blog
Inside Design Tokens: Token Specification
Design tokens become scalable when they are replicable. A token specification is a formula for achieving design tokens scalability and tools interoperability.
Inside Design Tokens: Put your Tokens on a Scale
Ever worked with a set of design tokens that are super inconsistent and hardly distinguishable? Perhaps a wrong scale? This article explains the available scales, their problems and what to use them for.
The Feed is the Product: Why We Stay in Walled Gardens, and Why We Might Finally Leave for the Open Social Web - Zsolt's pckt blog
We have known this for years. We have known that the major platforms are bad for our attention, our sleep, our politics, our children, and our sense of reality....
JuliusBrussee/caveman
🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman
Procedural Tokens — encoding design decisions
Most design tokens hold a value. The interesting ones hold a rule. A live walk from static refs to procedural tokens.
Inside Design Tokens: The Hidden Knowledge
Tokens contain a lot of information and even more the relationship between tokens. Making sense of this information is the hidden knowledge living within tokens. Unlocking this knowledge is the next evolution step for design tokens.
A broken pricing paradigm
A token is not a fixed unit of cost Variance in usage creates an interconnected pricing and scaling issue Anjali Shrivastava anjali.shrivastava99@gmail.com | @anjali_shriva THIS ESSAY IS NOW LIVE! A token is not a fixed unit of cost PART I: High variance in AI demand breaks unit economics and re...
