The answer is design tokens! For over a decade, we’ve helped dozens of organizations — including some of the world’s largest! — create design token systems to help them strike the balance between consistency/efficiency and expression/innovation. It’s hard and tricky work!

599^.00 Register for this workshop → Get a single workshop, or bundle with another workshop.

This full-day workshop will help you master design tokens to help your Multi-All-The-Things organization create high-quality digital products:

• Core concepts – Why design tokens matter, their use cases and applications, and where they live in a design system ecosystem.
• Token foundations & architecture – Introduce the three-tiered design token architecture and apply it to color, typography, border, spacing, and shadow tokens.
• Naming conventions – Structure and guidance to help you conquer the biggest pain in the ass around creating a token system.
• Implementing a token system in Figma and code – Create token architecture in Figma Variables and Style Dictionary. We’ll discuss the good, bad, and ugly of synchronization and automation between design and code.
• Wiring up a token system in design and code – Implement a token system in design files and CSS custom properties for design systems and custom components.
• Managing & evolving design token systems – Manage a token system like a product: cross-disciplinary collaboration, token czars, governance, and versioning.
• Advanced design tokens – Dark mode, rebrands, sub-brands, white-labeling, multiple product families, and more.

Why You Should Attend?

Design tokens are a cross-disciplinary affair! That’s why this workshop is geared towards both designers and developers, and will be valuable for both teams getting started and teams with mature systems.

About Brad Frost

Brad Frost is the inventor of Atomic Design and is a design system consultant, front-end developer, speaker, writer, musician, and artist located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. As a principal and design system consultant at Big Medium, he’s helped 10% of the Fortune 100 establish and evolve their enterprise design systems. He is the author of the book Atomic Design, which introduces a methodology to create and maintain effective design systems.

He co-hosted the Style Guides Podcast and has helped create several tools and resources for web designers, including Pattern Lab, Styleguides.io, Style Guide Guide, This Is Responsive, Death to Bullshit, and more.

Location

Situated in a bustling area of central Antwerp, our workshop location Vestar offers professional and green meeting spaces. Their workshop rooms are bright and modern, and they’ll offer delightful workshop refreshments and lunch during the day.

Time

This full-day workshop will take place at Vestar. The workshop will be running from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM on Thursday. September 4.

Schedule for Thursday. September 4.

9:00 AM – Doors open, Registration
9:30 AM – Introduction & Kick-off
11:00 AM – Coffee Break
1:00 PM – Lunch
2:00 PM – Afternoon Session
3:30 PM – Coffee Break
5:30 PM – The End

Save EUR 200 when signing up for two workshops!