Jan Six, creator of the powerful Figma Tokens plugin, joined forces with Marc Andrew, creator of a massive Cabana design system, to rebuild the system using tokens. It’s still an early version, but Jan talks about some of the benefits of the new approach in this article.
A guide on how to build design systems that scale easily and sync with GitHub, with the help of a plugin called Figma Tokens.
A Figma plugin allowing you to define & use tokens directly in Figma, including smart aliases for colors, typography, spacing, border radius, etc. Jan Six is also working on the way to sync tokens with a GitHub repository.
Jan Six, Sr. Product Designer at GitHub, talks about creating a design tokens system in Figma. See also his plugin Design Tokens below.