Roadmap

This is the roadmap for the Carbon Design System, based on our planned design and development path. It is a list of our priorities in various broad initiative areas.

• Timeline
• Community contribution
• Accessibility
• Brand/theme
• Website
• Components
• Disclaimer

Resources

Timeline

• September 2nd, 2019: Start release cycle
• October 4th, 2019: Code freeze for the endgame
• October 7th-11th, 2019: Release Candidate cuts and smoke tests
• October 15th, 2019: Release/Endgame done

Community contribution

Primary goals

• Hold a contribution summit (late September)
• Get alignment, validation and technical point of view for our proposed contribution model
• Operational Contributor License Agreement (CLA)) needs to go up on the site

Deferred goals

• High fidelity designs for community contribution experience on Carbon site

Accessibility

Primary goals

• Clear high and medium priority issues in accessibility project backlog
• Provide general accessibility team advocacy and training throughout the project

Stretch goals

• Per component accessibility documentation
• Create a system to track/monitor turnaround time on a11y issues

Brand/theme

Primary goals

• Create a native, client-side search for our Gatsby theme
• Improve our website table component
• Vertical rhythm and spacing normalization in our theme
• Improve our video component accessibility

Stretch goals

• Create gated/protected paths for private data
• Enhance our image gallery #237

Website

Primary goals

• Content website content audit and strategy
• Comparative usage guidance audits
• Triage Patterns by quality and importance #189
• Patterns status overview (cupcake version)
• Get Cloud Integrations Patterns up on site #87
• Get Axure tool page up on site
• Reorganize and skin the grid demo and incorporate layout guidance
• Explore theme / variant switcher component display window
• Add Charts pages #208 #239

Stretch goals

• Replace CarbonDocs with markdown/mdx
• Add Elements docs on website
• Add Sass docs on website
• MVP of integrated component page
• Wires and prototyping tertiary / on-page nav for Carbon site to better accommodate contribution vs. placing everything in ‘Experimental’

Deferred goals

• Use React instead of Vanilla in code examples
• Production guidelines to accompany mdx guidance

Tooling

Primary goals

• Shipping color palette V2 #3904
• IDL kit
  • Completion / clean-up of any bugs from plugin
  • Add pictograms when ready from dev
• Carbon kit get library swap from the new IDL and library kits

Components

Primary goals

• Determine priority of feature enhancements

Disclaimer