Re: [community-group] Standardizing the Handoff - Conceptual (#220)

@phun-ky Well said, and absolutely true! Designers and developers do speak different languages, share different cultures, and approach problems from distinct perspectives. Yet, if we took one suggestion from @ipaintcode and solved that, wouldn't the world be a better place? For instance...

- **Token Naming Convention**: A clear and consistent system for naming. Category-property-value (think color-background-primary)

This is a step in the right direction, though I would advocate for the much richer taxonomy that CTI+ offers (Domain, Category, Type, Item, SubItem, Varient, and Context) with additional metadata tags to indicate subbrands/subthemes, and modes. Possibly a bit more. However, such granularity requires a defined 'schema' to map input from tokens to code output. As a community, I don't think we're nearly aligned on that concept, as JSON was created to be simple to read and not require an additional file to make code sense of it.

While I advocate strongly for @ipaintcode  ideas, I'm not sure we're ready. Perhaps W3C Design Tokens v2.0. But let's try not to wait another year or more before v1 gets out the door ;-)




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