Automating Design Systems: Tips And Resources For Getting Started

August 8, 2025

Screenshot of a design tokens generator interface with a purple theme, showing CSS variable definitions for an alert utility and a panel promoting effortless design token creation for developers and designers.

Design systems are more than style guides: they’re made up of workflows, tokens, components, and documentation — all the stuff teams rely on to build consistent products. As projects grow, keeping everything in sync gets tricky fast. In this article, we’ll look at how smart tooling, combined with automation where it makes sense, can speed things up, reduce errors, and help your team focus on design over maintenance.

Source: Automating Design Systems: Tips And Resources For Getting Started — Smashing Magazine

From the ever-excellent Smashing Magazine, an article on how as the complexity and size of our design systems grow, we can maintain them using automation.