I used to hate design tokens until I had to update 47 buttons by hand

Last month I was in a client's office in Austin fixing button colors for a rebrand and realized I'd spent 6 hours changing hex codes one by one across 3 different files. That's when I finally caved and set up a proper token system. Has anyone else had a similar breaking point with something you kept avoiding?

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kellyj231d ago

Were you using inline styles or CSS classes when you had to change all those buttons?

angela_wilson781d ago

180 buttons across 4 different projects that all had slightly different blue hex codes I'd been copying from a Google Doc. I finally snapped when the client asked for "a slightly warmer blue" and I had to manually test 12 different blues to find which one worked everywhere. Tokens saved my sanity like two weeks later when they changed their mind again and I just updated one value.