FREE TEMPLATE — Design Systems Decoded
This template accompanies EP05 — Token Drift: The Silent System Killer.
Free with newsletter subscription. Link from the EP05 Quick Win section.
Purpose: Audit your current token architecture against the three-layer standard. Identify where drift is already happening.
From the series by Alex Aljabawi — uxarena.net
Tokens don’t create consistency. They expose whether your assumptions were consistent to begin with.
This audit tells you whether your token architecture will hold — or is already drifting.
The fictional company is Greystone — a 110-person SaaS company with a design system that launched eight months ago. The team believes their tokens are working. The audit tells a different story.
Completed by: Design Systems Lead
Date: Q1 2026