Zaps @ Turnip · 2026

I built the design system and token pipeline at Zaps

A token-first design system in Figma, turned into a machine-readable contract — and validated by building the app's UI in SwiftUI myself, with AI, before a developer ever touched it.

The Zaps design system — tokens, components, and the SwiftUI build validating them

TL;DR

I designed Zaps' multilayered token-first design system in Figma, turned it into a compiled run-time artefact, and validated the whole pipeline by building the app's UI in SwiftUI myself — with AI — before a developer ever touched it.

semantic tokens, each mapped to a primitive

152

components across 29 variant sets

SwiftUI components built from the tokens

My first design system — built for production, learned by shipping it.

Full case study coming soon.