Workshop | The Ultimate Guide to Naming Design Tokens with Romina Kavcic
Build a scalable design token naming system for your design system
A strong design system starts with scalable, consistent design tokens—but most teams struggle to keep their naming conventions clear, flexible, and future-proof.
In this live workshop, you'll discover how to create, organize, and implement a scalable design token naming system that supports a growing design system across teams and tools.
Starting with industry best practices, you'll learn practical approaches to structuring tokens that balance technical requirements with intuitive naming conventions.
You'll develop a customized system through hands-on exercises with Figma, Airtable, and Google Sheets.
💸 Price: Uxcel Pro members – $30 (50% off!) | Standard tickets – $60
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📌 Registered attendees will get a full recording and all accompanying materials post-session.
📖 What You'll Learn
How to structure and name design tokens using scalable systems that grow with your product and design system
Hands-on strategies for building a flexible design token inventory using Figma, Airtable, Google Sheets, and AI tools
How to implement a repeatable, team-friendly workflow with custom views your whole organization can use
🕒 Workshop Agenda
Introduction: Meet Romina Kavcic and hear how she helps teams scale their design systems.
Foundations of token naming: Industry best practices and naming frameworks that balance clarity and scale.
Building a system: Step-by-step activity using Airtable and Google Sheets to build a scalable token inventory system. You'll learn how to build custom views that help different team members focus on relevant information
Practical use of AI tools: How to use AI to generate naming conventions, use pre-built templates, and export to JSON.
Q&A & wrap-up: Answering questions and actionable next steps and resources to bring to your team.
🧑💻 Who Should Attend?
This session is perfect for designers, product managers, developers, and design systems leads who want to improve how they manage design tokens as their team or product scales. Whether you’re starting from scratch or looking to improve what you have, you’ll leave with hands-on techniques.
🎙️ Meet the Speaker
Romina Kavcic is a Product Design Lead. Connecting design and business growth, she advises, coaches, and consults with companies on product design, design strategy, and design systems. Romina created The Design System Guide and The Design Strategy Guide, where she shares useful resources for setting up a design system and ensuring that a product boosts growth and user engagement. She also loves mentoring young designers and students and speaking about design at meetups and conferences.
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