# Blog - Design Systems & Design Tokens

> Guides and deep dives on design tokens, design system architecture, and keeping design and code in sync - written by the team building Flash DSM.

- Source: https://flashdsm.com/blog
- Site: Flash DSM (https://flashdsm.com)

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## Articles

- [Screen generators give you mockups. You still need a design system.](https://flashdsm.com/blog/screens-vs-design-system) - AI UI tools ship pretty screens. Flash DSM ships the foundation underneath: tokens, components, and exports your code can trust. Here is the difference that matters. Plain text: https://flashdsm.com/blog/screens-vs-design-system.md
- [Generate a complete design system from a single prompt](https://flashdsm.com/blog/generate-design-system-from-prompt) - Flash DSM uses parallel AI workers to build every layer of your design system - colors, typography, spacing, shadows, and components - from one sentence. Here's exactly how it works. Plain text: https://flashdsm.com/blog/generate-design-system-from-prompt.md
- [Why your AI coding assistant generates off-brand UI (and how to fix it)](https://flashdsm.com/blog/cursor-design-tokens-on-brand-ai) - Cursor, Copilot, and Claude generate UI that ignores your design system because they don't have your token context. Flash DSM solves this with Cursor rules and an MCP server that inject live token data into every AI request. Plain text: https://flashdsm.com/blog/cursor-design-tokens-on-brand-ai.md
- [Design tokens explained: from primitives to components](https://flashdsm.com/blog/design-tokens-explained) - Design tokens are the named values that define your visual language - colors, spacing, type, shadows. Here's how the token hierarchy works and why it matters for keeping design and code in sync. Plain text: https://flashdsm.com/blog/design-tokens-explained.md