🪙 ➕ Apply token workflow enhancements

As our design system grows and the number of components we tokenize grows, the current workflow to apply tokens can be a bit clunky. The community has requested we explore some alternate options based on common use cases:

• When managing lots of tokens and I need to add tokens to a new component, it's time consuming to find each token, select it, right click to access the property menu, then choose the attribute to apply to my design element.

  • Could I use a "light version" of the plugin built for speed to apply my tokens?

  • Being able to sort and filter tokens in a different way only solves half the problem I'm facing.

• When I'm working on tokens in the plugin, I may accidentally be applying the tokens to design elements on the Figma canvas without knowing it.

  • Could I have a setting for "editing" where I can't apply tokens to any design elements until I am done?

• I'm creating a new component that uses many of the same tokens as another, could I somehow copy and paste the tokens from one component to another instead of having to manually apply them one by one?

💭 How might we...

Reconsider the process of applying tokens to reduce the manual multi-step process we have today to speed up the process or even automate it where possible.

💬 Feedback that is valuable

• How does this issue impact your day-to-day workflow?

• What workarounds do you have?

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