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Design Tokens · 2024

Northwind — Design Token Pipeline

Client — Northwind Retail

A cross-platform token pipeline that lets a single change to brand color or spacing flow to web, iOS, and Android without anyone hand-editing values.

Northwind — Design Token Pipeline

The work

Role

Design Systems Lead — designed the token taxonomy and owned the Style Dictionary build that generates platform outputs.

Process

Consolidated scattered hex values and magic numbers into a governed token set, then built a Style Dictionary pipeline that emits CSS variables, Swift, and Kotlin from one JSON source of truth, validated in CI.

Outcome

A rebrand that once took an estimated six weeks of manual edits shipped in under a week, and platform teams stopped diverging on color and spacing entirely.

Want to work together?

I take on a small number of design system engagements at a time. Let’s see if it’s a fit.