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Atomic Design + Tokens = ❤️ Subatomic Chapter 7 Now Live!

🧨 AND BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE! Chapter 7 of our Subatomic Design Tokens Course is now live! Through 31 videos, we detail the human processes involved in creating and maintaining a successful design token system product at your organization.

Animated GIF showing Instagram's app UI broken out into 6 categories: Tokens (color, typography, etc), atoms, molecules, organisms, templates, pages

We discuss how crucial it is to build your design token system through the lens of mission-critical pilot projects, how Atomic Design helps connect your token and component systems to the products they power, how to advance your design token product through 4 phases, and how to establish a governance process to successfully improve and evolve your system.

[Cue The Final Countdown by Europe]

With the completion of Chapter 7, teams have all of the concepts, techniques, and processes they need to own and evolve a successful design token system. We’re in the middle of recording the last chapter on advanced design token concepts, which is really the cherry on top of an intimidatingly-large ice cream sundae. I (Brad) have a family trip that’s (thankfully!) pulling me away from screens for a few days, but Ian is hard at work finessing the transcripts, links, PDFs, and holding down the fort while I’m being a bum and spending time with my family.

There’s only about a week and a half left to preorder the course at a discounted price. You can sink your teeth into nine — NINE! — hours of in-depth videos, receive an enterprise-grade design token architecture in Figma & code to kickstart/improve your design token system, get access to a private Slack instance filled with truly amazing people, and also get first access to Chapter 8 as soon as it’s done.

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Since day one, Ian and I have been driven by a strong desire to help people, and we knew we’d create something that would be valuable for teams. That’s why it makes us so happy to continue to get great feedback like this:

“I just wanted to express how invaluable this course has been to me and my team. So grateful to you for taking the time to put this together. The content is thorough, and well-explained. As a first time design system designer, you have helped address literally most every question that has come up. The content has served as a catalyst for several conversations amongst our team, and we’re really excited to get this thing built! It just shows how much time, effort, and attention to detail y’all have put into this course. Very appreciative and can’t wait to get through the course in its entirety!” - Josh Brown

Only one chapter left; here we go!

Love Always,

Brad Frost and Ian Frost

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