What is Tokenize?
A more seamless design handoff tool I built to streamline the token-to-code workflow.
Every design system I worked on hit the same wall at handoff: the tokens were defined once, then retyped by hand into CSS, Tailwind, Swift, XML, each platform its own format. It was tedious, easy to get wrong, and the moment a color changed, everything drifted out of sync. I built Tokenize so that translation happens in one paste instead of by hand。
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How it was built: I let AI widen the solution space, then judged on what would scale, not what was fastest to build.
Why Tokenize: Design and engineering keep falling out of sync at handoff, so I wanted to make the jump from design tokens to real platform code fast and shared, instead of manual and lossy.
Reflection
Knowing where the tool should stop
The hardest call wasn't technical, it was knowing where the tool should stop. I scoped it to one-shot handoff, not continuous sync, because the moment it tries to be a live pipeline, it's an engineering product, not something a designer can own. Drawing that line was the actual design work.