Roadmap

Overview

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.

Core product

• WCAG Compliance for core component libraries (vanilla and React)
• Sketch kit themes
• Data table functionality updates
• Properties and state management
• UI Shell v1
• Design specs for unbuilt features
• New feature requests
• Theming
• Document and templatize the pattern design process
• Charts
• Data visualization
• Investigate feasibility / desirability of fluid components

Process improvement

• Sketch kit themes functionality
• Dev tooling
• Generate design assets from code
• Tools to measure Carbon adoption

Education and activation

• ‘Adopt a product’ initiative
• Class curriculum coursework
• More tutorials
• User testing and research
• Expand enablement and education for contributing

Governance and architecture

• React as the source of truth, or introduce monorepo approach
• Standardize components (specs, reporting, etc)
• Define add-ons / user generated content approach

Support

• Clean up code comments
• Expanded documentation and live demo
• Define active support model / strategy

More Information on Patterns

Prioritize the most important compound components, layouts, and workflow patterns. Encourage bringing these in through contribution from extended teams.

• Publish on the website the full list of all components that we propose, even if 0% complete.
• Prioritize and solicit contributions based on follows and upvotes for components.

Compound components

• Shell (header, global navigation, avatar, left/right sidebars, breadcrumbs, footer)
• Forms
• Data table
• Empty states
• Date picker
• Cards
• Condition builder
• Reporting
• File uploader
• Calendar/scheduler
• Data visualization

Page templates

• Home page
• Dashboard page
• Detail page
• Profile page
• Catalog page
• Billing and usage page
• Management page
• Docs page
• Legal

Workflow patterns

• Login
• First-time use
• Registration
• Searching
• What’s new
• Embedded help
• Provisioning
• Upgrading
• Updating
• Canceling
• Favoriting

Disclaimer

This roadmap is not a delivery commitment and is subject to change based on user needs and feedback.

Last updated 4/22/2019