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 Linear.

Q4 2020 #

• Background and user research.
• Overall planning and defining scope.
• Conducting interviews with makers, users and stakeholders.
• Figuring out organizational challenges.
• Overall Design System API Design.
• Design principles for the system.

Q1 2021 #

• Ways of working for design system.
• Public documentation platform for Design System.
• Drafting Type, Color & Spacing rules for design system.
• Work on design principles for the system continues.
• Establishing new workflows for the team.
• Design Tokens package work starts.
• Theming package work starts.
• Content and documentation creation work starts.
• Publishing Font package v1.0.0
• Name for the design system.
• Versioning model and public releases page for design system.
• Naming and coding conventions for design system.
• Automated frontend tooling.
• Publishing Theming package 1.0.
• New marketing website work starts.
• Corporate brand refresh and planning.

Q2 2021 #

• New marketing website ready.
• Brand refresh ready.
• Team building for design system.
• Starting to provide support for design system users.
• Public release of the Design System.
• Bringing Nordhealth fonts into font package.
• Recategorization of themes and bringing in Nordhealth theme.
• Documenting the new Nordhealth brand.
• Rethinking naming and categorization of design tokens.
• Onboarding new team members.
• Design work for refreshed user interface components starts.
• Content and documentation creation work continues.

Q3 2021 #

• Starting work on Figma designer toolkit.
• Design work for refreshed UI elements continues.
• Setting up storage container and CDN distribution for design system.
• Icon library work starts.
• Onboarding new team members.
• CSS Framework planning and work starts.
• Core component system work starts.
• Improved communication via "Monthly updates" and weekly office hours.
• Automated frontend tooling work continues.
• Content and documentation creation work continues.
• Introducing “Design System Academy” that provides opportunities for the designers and product people to improve their skills and learn new ones.
• Dog fooding product teams and ourselves to get feedback.
• Prototyping and gathering feedback for new Provet Cloud and Diarium UX.
• Publishing CSS Framework package 1.0.
• Publishing Icon library package 1.0.
• Publishing Design Tokens package 1.0.
• Beta Components package for testing.

Q4 2021 #

• Figma designer toolkit work continues.
• UX and UI rework for Provet Cloud and Diarium starts.
• Starting to provide tutorials and more guidelines for the users.
• Component work shifts to templates and patterns as well.
• Visual regression tests for design system components.
• Design work for refreshed UI elements continues.
• Core Component System work continues.
• Content and documentation creation work continues.
• Dog fooding product teams and ourselves to get feedback.
• Accessibility testing ramps up.
• Figma designer toolkit work continues.
• Publishing Components package 1.0.
• Developer tools.

Q1-Q2 2022 #

• Focusing on contribution and adoption from different product teams.
• Wider public release of the Design System.
• Internal and public promotion of the system.
• Optimizing bundle sizes of all packages.
• UX and UI rework for our applications continues.
• Bug reporting capabilities and enhanced support for design system.
• Developing more complex components and improving the existing ones.
• Work on templates and patterns continues.
• Dog fooding product teams and ourselves to get feedback.
• Starting to organize wider sessions about design system inside the org.
• Internal and external design system research.
• Creating automated tools to measure adoption and usage.
• Creating content guidelines for components.
• Moving focus onto usage patterns.
• Nord Command Line Interface.