Building a Accessible, Performant Design System: From Tokens to Tooling
Design systems are more than a collection of components; they are the collaborative fabric that keeps a product cohesive as it grows. This tutorial walks you through building a frontend design system that is accessible, performant, and developer-friendly. You’ll move from design tokens to a living component library with practical patterns, code examples, and actionable steps you can apply today.
1) Define a stable design language
A design system starts with a shared language. Define these core pieces once and reuse them across teams.
Color tokens: primary, secondary, surface, on-surface, error, success, disabled
