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Design Tokens in Responsive Design

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Francesco Improta
Sep 26, 2023
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Should tokens change across different screens?

My answer is: “No.”

I have always been a fan of the Single-responsibility principle, the computer programming principle that states:

”A module should be responsible to one, and only one, actor”

In our case, the “module” is a token name, and the “actor” is his value.

This means a design token should have a single…

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