Back to School with Amy Hupe & Geri Reid: Design Tokens

April 17, 2024

Amy Hupe and Geri Reid are back in the class to teach you all about design tokens. They’ll be breaking it down, so you leave after acing the pop quiz.

This episode will be recorded live on the 17th April at 3pm BST (7am PT), and for this class they’ll be talking about Design Tokens.

There’s a lot of chatter about design tokens. Why do you need tokens? And how do you architect them when there’s so much conflicting advice? 

Geri and Amy go back to school to put tokens under the microscope.

Design system consultants Amy Hupe and Geri Reid are going back to design systems school.

In this series, Amy and Geri put aside their vocal and opinionated assumptions to dive deep on design systems topics; from Figma libraries to design tokens to deciding if AI can really write decent documentation. Climb aboard the school bus for a field trip on the history, the conversations and the foundations that really make a design system great.

It’s time to crack open the textbooks and head back to freshers week…

About the hosts

Amy Hupe

she/her; Design systems & content design consultant

Amy is a UK based design systems and content design consultant. Over the past 7 years, she’s worked on design systems for some of the biggest names around, including GOV.UK, BT, Springer Nature and Babylon Health. Whether she’s leading systems work or designing content, Amy works to champion simplicity and inclusion in the face of increasing complexity.

Geri Reid

she/her; Design systems & accessibility consultant

Geri is a design systems consultant from London. Previously, the design and accessibility lead on the NewsKit Design System, she has helped some of the UK’s largest newspaper and broadcast brands to design at scale. She also led design on design systems at Lloyds Banking Group and Checkout.com, and she is a keen accessibility advocate, amateur writer, and documentation nerd.