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Origami Newsletter, October 2019#

Posted on by Lee Moody.
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TL;DR: This issue covers an upcoming major new release of our components including o-typography, o-colors, and o-buttons; plus we discuss our new Continuous Integration tools.

Top Things

These are some of the bigger things we’ve done over the last three months since our previous newsletter…

Major Component Releases

We’ve been working on upgrades to fundamental Origami components like o-typography, o-colors, and o-buttons. Releasing a new version of these components necessitates a major release of other components too. So we’ve taken the opportunity to introduce recent proposals across all 52 of our components. The upgrades focus on:

Find out more about the changes we’re making and why in our blog post.

We will start to release betas for these changes next week, with an announcement and full releases following soon after. Projects which depend on Origami components will need developer input to upgrade. We’ve discussed our plans with groups across the Financial Times and are planning a time to support Customer Products directly with their more complex upgrade path. If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback please reach out to the team — we’re here to help. 😊

Origami Fox

Also new are our continuous integration tools for Origami components. They allow us to roll out changes to our build process for all components at once.

With this new found power we made a little Origami Fox friend. Our little Origami Fox tells us if our components are getting bigger or smaller with every change, to help us prevent an unexpected jump which could slow down sites across the Financial Times Group.

A comment from Fox Friend on an o-comments pull request (a request to make changes to its codebase). The comments team have done a great job at reducing the bundle size of o-comments by over 130kb without compression.

If your team maintains an Origami compatible component which doesn’t already use our new Continuous Integration tools let us know, we’re happy to help you start using them.

Special Thanks

Our special thanks this month goes to everyone who has contributed to the design basics working group. Thanks Luke Griffiths, Caroline Nevitt, Mark Limb, Simon Coxon, and Jessica Engerer! They helped rationalise inconsistent design in typography and buttons for the upcoming major releases discussed above, and have created a Sketch UI Kit of Origami components. Learn more about the new UI Kit in Luke Griffiths’ blog post.

Broader Update

A digest list of other things that have happened since our last update: