✨ New Features & Improvements

Infrastructure & Platform Stability

• Major Backend Migration Completed: We've been heads-down for the past few months performing a significant infrastructure overhaul to improve performance, scalability, and reliability. This migration was essential groundwork that enables us to ship faster and more confidently going forward—thanks for your patience during this quieter period!

Self-Service Onboarding

• When you create a new organisation you can now start your own subscriptions, choose plans, and opt into trials without waiting for manual setup.

• You can now start a trial in Studio, giving you access to Studio for 30 days.

• Ability to manage plans and billing. We’ve added a Subscription page that lets you configure and see your usage limits and billing details.

Project & Organization Management

• You can now archive projects! This will help you stay below usage limits of active projects - archived projects can be unarchived anytime.

• Improved user management for organizations - inviting users got a revamp.

• New consent dialog ensures users acknowledge mandatory documents before accessing Studio features - consent documents can be accessed from the organisation settings. An activity log lets you track all organisation related activity for auditing.

User management

• You can now request a data export and delete your account

• API keys can now be configured with scopes, giving you fine grained control

• There’s an activity log in your profile letting you see all activity

Graph & Token Set Improvements

• Fixed Graph Uploads: Resolved issues with graph-based set uploads that were causing failures.

• Better Empty States: Themes page now shows helpful guidance when no token sets exist, with direct links to create them.

• New token editing experience: When you edit a token using the Space key, we now show an embedded panel on the right, giving you access to the Relations view as well as the ability to edit token properties - all while being able to interact with the rest of the table.

Various Updates

• Enhanced project name validation to be more permissive while maintaining filesystem standards—leading spaces are now allowed and automatically trimmed.

• Fixed checkbox interactions when creating or updating personal access tokens.

• Improved error displays to handle both GraphQL and regular errors without spamming toast notifications.

• Added loading states throughout the onboarding flow for better user feedback.

• Added warning messages for cancelled subscriptions that haven't expired yet.

• Cleaned up various UI inconsistencies including unwanted scrollbars and heading size issues.

• Made postal code field properly optional in billing address forms.

• Better Style Dictionary config error handling.

• Fixed themes landing page flicker by showing skeleton states until data loads.

• Upgraded SDK and utilities for improved performance and reliability.

✨ New Features & Improvements

Token table improvements

• Bulk Change Enhancements: You can now search & replace values directly when applying bulk changes—making it easier to target and modify specific tokens.

• Improved Focus on Return: When returning to a Studio tab after being away, the token table now reloads smoothly without disrupting your focus.

• Keyboard Workflow Boost: Pressing Tab in the token table now saves your edits—perfect for keyboard-driven editing.

• Broken References Highlighted: Link/Unlink icons have been replaced with a clearer red wavy underline for broken references.

• Move Tokens Across Sets: Tokens can now be moved to another set via the … menu on each token.

• Object values for dimension tokens now display correctly in the UI.

Releases

• Token Diff View: Releases now include a visual diff of new, updated, and removed tokens between versions—great for reviewing what changed at a glance.

Configuration page updates

• Style Dictionary Upgrade: Bumped to Style Dictionary 5.0.0-rc.1, delivering faster token expansion performance.

• On-Demand Preview: The SD preview now triggers only when you choose to run it—cutting down on unnecessary load times in larger projects.

Various updates

• Fixed an issue where graphs would occasionally show outdated data from previous versions.

• Upgraded our internal tooltip library to a more performant implementation for a smoother experience across the app.

• Tooltips have been added for the Tutorials, Documentation, and Changelog buttons to improve discoverability.

• Fixed an issue where borderColor composition token properties didn’t suggest color tokens in the reference picker.

• Our Toasts have gotten a visual refresh

• Dialog fixes:

  • Fixed freeze issue that occasionally happened on dialog close.

  • Fixed rename/delete/duplicate dialog getting hidden behind dropdowns.

• Fixed an issue where two collapse icons were shown when token navigation was minimized.

• Fixed issue preventing group selection when inviting a new user.

• Fixed issue where invited users couldn't select a group.

• Deleted token sets are now correctly removed from token flow views.

This week we’ve been working on stability, some internal process updates as well as an exciting new feature: Releases!

Releases

With Releases, you can publish the current state of your design system and mark it as a specific version. You can create a release, give it a specific version number (or follow SemVer), add a release description, and then choose which export configurations should be included. This is a first release that we want to share early, but we have much more planned here. You can read all about what we’ll still have in store for you by navigating to the roadmap item.

• Added ability to create releases and assign a specific version or follow semver

• Added ability to list and view releases in Studio

• Added ability to download tokens at point of release from a specific release page

Export configuration page optimizations

• The export configuration page should now feel significantly faster. We migrate to Style Dictionary v5 for performance improvements.

• The Configuration page now requires user action (click a button) to run Style Dictionary and get transformed outputs.

• Removed expand property from export configurations if user has selected no types to expand, speeding everything up.

• The export Configuration page was crashing on refresh, it now no longer crashes

Learning material

• We worked hard on a series of onboarding / getting started videos. We added those to our YouTube as a playlist. Go check it out, we added some amazing videos to get started!

• Changed the link of the YouTube tile on the dashboard to our onboarding playlist.

• Added a Tutorials entry to the left side of the navigation to find those videos.

Companion plugin

• Added support for number and text types, previously those weren’t supported

• Fixed an issue where font family tokens with a space in its name were created with quotes around it, causing them to not work in Figma

• Fixed an issue with numerical font weights that were being referenced being created as the wrong variable type

Apply variables plugin

• We added a feature to Apply variables that lets you apply tokens where variables were applied. Meaning, if you had a variable called ‘colors.gray.500’ applied on a layer, we will apply a token with that name. This should make moving over to the Tokens Studio ecosystem easier.

• Fixed an issue with border radius not being translated to variables properly