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Negotiate the Token, Not the One-Off

Respond to design handoff changes by distinguishing one-off styling from reusable system decisions.

Lina LN Product designer 1 Clarify 2 Classify 3 Commit Design handoff 20 sec The request Lina asks for a campaign alert to use a new purple, a custom radius, and a smaller font. You can code it in five minutes, but the product already has drifting alert styles. Atomic design helps you ask whether this belongs to the instance, the component variant, or the system tokens. 6 existing alert exceptions campaign launching today future campaigns mentioned

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