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Disney

On a design systems contract at Disney, I architected our Figma variables as layers of tokens, so a change to one primitive cascades to all of the components.

Entertainment

Industry

Enterprise

Company type

2024 to 2025

When

Role

Design systems contractor

Team

Design systems, serving product teams

Outcome

Layered token architecture in Figma

What everyone assumed

My job on the design systems contract was to architect our Figma variables.

What changed

Layering tokens into primitives and semantic tokens meant a change to one primitive cascaded to every component, so teams could scale and stay consistent with less effort.

Two Figma variable tables: brand colours behind, and theme colours that point to them in front

How it unfolded

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