Digest for Monday 17 August 2026

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• Established

  Design tokens: the boring skill worth learning

  The W3C Design Tokens Community Group's format spec is the shared standard tools like Figma variables and Penpot's token system are building toward. It's not new or exciting, but it's becoming baseline knowledge.

  w3.org · 1 Jun

• Adoption

  Figma Sites: canvas to live website, no code

  Figma launched Sites, letting you publish a working website straight from a Figma file. It's out of pure-hype territory — teams are actually shipping pages with it.

  figma.com · 1 May

• Adoption

  Stop collecting AI tools, pick one workflow

  One designer's account of testing 40+ AI design tools found most didn't survive contact with real work — a handful of simple, repeatable uses did. Useful reality check if your bookmarks folder is full of 'tools to try'.

  nurxmedov.medium.com · 15 Jan

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