logic shifts
Prime time: themes
Tokens Studio comes pre-packaged with Themes. Combined with set, they define what's being applied to components.
riffpoints
A design tokens architecture that includes categories, so things can be found; objects, to easily apply formatting; brand, so it looks cohesive; and time -- what tends to change, the patterns under the patterns.
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Building considerations
Design tokens have two really strong enablements of their own:
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Taxonomy considerations
The tool informed taxonomy I leveraged Tokens Studio to work out my details. The team is amazing.
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Questionable logics
First: always question. These are just the ones I continue to question in my own use. There is part of me that knows there’s more, but the message is clear: keep thinking. 😉
concepts
Complex consistency of visual language
Visual design is a language, and it’s no less complex than our written/verbal language, and no less able to form traceable patterns than all our languages and ideas combined. Language works because of the underlying patterns. Words support it, and new words can be created to support new
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Caveat: this is not a design system
This is not a design system. This is an architecture that can contribute to a well-formulated design system.
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Using information architecture
Expert use of information architecture enables both insight and expert redesign. Information isn’t just the nodes we tend to pay attention to – the positive forms in the abstractions of data. Between the positive forms is connections. Those connections, combined, form connectome. That connectome forms patterns that can be used
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Why riffpoints architecture
Riffpoints architecture is focused on deep information construction. All the concepts are/will-be to a degree, but this one barely gets out. There is very limited outward-facing effects, and even then it's only in the extended potentials. But: that's our information. Information is abstract. We have