How design tokens empower better collaboration between designers and developers.

I remember auditing a company’s product once, a decently sized web and mobile application, only to learn that a certain “expand” button was not only using multiple shades of the primary color, but also had a changing border radius across the two platforms. Documenting that, I was unaware that changing the button to be correct and unified everywhere could take days to implements, as a poor developer would have to sift through each application, find every variant of the button and correct each of them, one-by-one. Long…