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Dividing Responsibilities for Design Token Ownership
Effective design token ownership benefits from a division of responsibilities based on change type, rather than solely assigning them to designers or engineers. Designers can manage primitive values, a collaborative design-systems team can oversee semantic tokens as a public API, and engineering can handle transforms and platform-specific outputs. Automated checks can maintain this structure, allowing value updates while identifying semantic token alterations that might impact components and necessitate migration.
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