Lab · 4 min read

Tokens that prompt themselves

Design tokens that carry their own generation intent through a pipeline.

Noetic Lab
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Design systems meet generation

A design token usually encodes a colour or spacing value. We extend the idea so a token can also carry generation intent — a brand's lighting, mood and material defaults travel with it.

When tokens prompt themselves, a marketer picks a brand token and the pipeline already knows how that brand wants its imagery to look.