Roadmap

This is the roadmap of Nord Design System, based on our planned design and development path. Subject to change based on user needs and feedback. Full backlog can be found from Jira.

Q1 2023 #

• Work on improving the existing components continues.
• Focusing on contribution and adoption from different product teams.
• Improving developer experience for Vue.js developers with @nordhealth/vue package.
• Improving localization features and documentation.
• Advanced application shell design and development.
• Developing more complex components and improving the existing ones.
  • Notification component.
  • Notification Group component.
  • Improvoments to Navigation component.
  • Improvoments to Nav Group component.
  • Improvements to Header component.
  • Improvements to Layout component.
  • Improvements to Button component.
  • Improvements to Dropdown and Popout components.
  • Improvements to Avatar component.
  • Improvements to Skeleton component.
  • Improvements to Input component.
• Dog fooding product teams and ourselves to get feedback.
• Work on templates and more complex patterns continues.
• Designing additional medical icons for Nordicons.
• Shipping redesigned Nordicons.

Q2 2023 #

• Providing better support for Vue.js.
• Release of Nord Web Components version 3.0.0.
• Improvements to CSS Framework to better cover the needs of feature teams.
• Improving contribution and collaboration workflows.
• Improved color system to better cover the needs of feature teams.
• Internal and external design system research.
• Improving the theming capabilities of Nord to better cover the needs of feature teams.
• Developing more complex components and improving the existing ones.
  • Top Bar component.
  • New Layout component.
  • Improvements to Button component.
  • Improvements to Date Picker component.
  • Improvements to Input Component.
  • Rich Text Editor component.
  • Notification counter utility.
  • Simple search functionality for Top Bar.
  • Notifications functionality for Top Bar.
  • My tasks functionality for Top Bar.
  • User menu functionality for Top Bar.
  • Flexible prefix and suffix feature for Input component.
• Continued: Advanced application shell design and development.
• Nord migration support for feature teams.
• Planning of 2023 H2 scope and roadmap.

Q3-Q4 2023 #

• Continued: Advanced application shell design and development.
• Integrating new application shell into legacy applications.
• Bringing new search functionality to feature teams.
• Nord Design System training for feature teams.
• Nord migration support for feature teams.
• Creating automated tools to measure adoption and usage.
• SSR (Server Side Rendering) support for Web Components.
• Nord Command Line Interface (CLI).
• Focusing on contribution and adoption from different product teams.
• Starting to research the efficacy of Nord Design System.
• New AWS production and staging environments.
• Improved design guidelines regarding typography.
• Improved design guidelines regarding space.
• Theme builder improvements to cover the new theming functionality.
• Developing more complex components and improving the existing ones:
  • Improvements to Command Menu component.
  • Improvements to Popout component.
  • Stepper component.
  • File Upload component.
  • Details component.
  • Number Input component.
  • Color Picker component.
  • Advanced search component.
  • Keyboard Key component.