Case Study: a leading S&P 500 company improves design token handover with Specify

Improving the handover of design tokens at an S&P 500 company

The customer, a leading S&P 500 company, faced significant challenges in managing its design system. Before using Specify, the team struggled with inefficiency and a lack of cohesion, exemplified by having 39 different shades of grey when only 8 were needed. The handover from designers in Figma to developers working across multiple technology stacks was a manual and error-prone process, creating a major bottleneck in their workflow.

By implementing Specify, the company created a seamless, automated pipeline for its design tokens. The solution automatically synced tokens from Figma to code, generating multiple NPM packages for different teams via a CLI command. This eliminated manual translation errors and saved a tremendous amount of time, making the team dramatically faster to market for both major and minor changes. Specify provided the crucial connective tissue that allowed the developers to focus on architecture and business features instead of manual token management.