Changelog

The simple overview of things that changed in Orbit.

React Orbit components updates

For all updates in React components follow our Github repos:

All updates are also published in #orbit-react Slack channel.

We also post some bigger updates to our Orbit Twitter account.

Also, when we update our icon font, we publish changes in #orbit-mobile Slack channel.

We also track changes on our documentation page, roadmap, etc.

🎉 NEW! Added Figma to Component status
🎉 NEW! Added a possibility to set viewports for component previews (check Alert)
🔥 IMPROVEMENT! Added a possibility to link directly also guidelines (e.g. this color guideline)
🔥 IMPROVEMENT Small visual tweaks to make orbit.kiwi UI a bit lighter
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Refactor UI kit completed

🎉 NEW! Launched a new orbit.kiwi documentation site – check our release article
🎉 NEW! Added PricingTable component
🔥 IMPROVEMENT Added an option to toggle additional colors in color palettes
🔥 IMPROVEMENT Added token names to copy to color palettes
🔥 IMPROVEMENT Added RGB colors to palettes
🔥 IMPROVEMENT Added CMYK color for offline usage to Brand section
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Improving theming possibilities moved from Future to Near term
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Improving orbit.kiwi documentation platform completed
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Launch Orbit Dashboard changed estimate to Q4/2019
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Create guidelines for Sketch & Abstract set estimate to Q4/2019
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Add calendar to Orbit changed estimate to Q1/2020
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Extending Orbit for event pages completed
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Add React playground to Orbit.Kiwi card was created
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Refactor UI kit card was created and moved to Current
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Improve extendability of Orbit components card was created

🎉 NEW! Added About Orbit page
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Extend Orbit to emails card moved to Current
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Extend Orbit to mobile platform changed to Develop Orbit components for native mobile
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Support native apps in Sketch UI kit card was created
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Guidelines for animations card was created
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Improve theming possibilities card was created
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Refactor form components card was created

🎉 NEW! Added new component – Pagination
🎉 NEW! Added new component – SkipLink
🎉 NEW! Added React Native to Component Status
🎉 NEW! Added Grammar & Mechanics page (first version)
🎉 NEW! Added Voice & Tone page (draft)
🔥 IMPROVEMENT Removing 3rd party dependency for our roadmap
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Automated assets generation card completed
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Login in React Native card renamed to Account in React Native
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Create content style guide card moved to Near term
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Create Sketch & Abstract guidelines card moved to Near term
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Brand color cleaning card moved to Future

🎉 NEW! Published Road to 1.0.0
🔥 IMPROVEMENT Added short descriptions for each component
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Improved basic accessibility card move to Completed
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Guidelines for Sketch & Abstract card created
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Extending Orbit for landing pages card renamed to Extending Orbit for event pages

🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Improved Orbit visual style card moved to Completed
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Orbit.Kiwi search feature card moved to Completed
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Released major version of Orbit components card created
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Automate icon generation card created
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Improved documentation homepage card created

🎉 NEW! Added standalone UI kit with Roboto typography
🎉 NEW! Added new guidelines for creating carrier logos
🔥 IMPROVEMENT A list of icons is not automatically fetched from Github repository and doesn’t need to be updated manually
🔥 IMPROVEMENT Added Pantone color code to Brand page
🔥 IMPROVEMENT All components page have a new header, with links to Github and Storybook + tabs for Guidelines and API.
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE React Native support card moved to Near term
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Change to mobile first approach marked as Completed

🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Extending style for landing page card moved to Current column
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE React Native support card moved to Near term column
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Framer X support card moved to Near term column

🎉 NEW! Added new component – Hide
🎉 NEW! Added new component – Stepper
🎉 NEW! Added new component – Tooltip
🎉 NEW! Added new page – Media queries
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE React Native support card moved to Future column
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Extending style for landing page card moved to Future column
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Content style guide card moved to Future column
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Streamline icons for Orbit renamed to Improve Orbit visual style and moved to Current column
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Change to mobile first approach moved to Current column
🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Updated estimates in all roadmap items

🎉 NEW! Added a new page – Github Repos & Resources
🎉 NEW! Added a new page – Biz Dev Reports
🔥 IMPROVEMENT Updated high-level roadmap – added few new cards and quarter estimates
🔥 IMPROVEMENT Added white logos to our logo package on Brand Kiwi.com page
🔥 IMPROVEMENT Added possibility to “copy” icon characters from Icon page
🔥 IMPROVEMENT Adjusted look of the left sidebar (more prominent buttons on bottom, more compact look of menu items)
🔥 IMPROVEMENT Redesigned Changelog page so we don’t need to duplicate stuff (links to all repos, list of changes only for documentation)

🎉 NEW! Added Implementation API for all components from 0.1.0 release
🎉 NEW! Color overview page for quick “copy/paste” use case!
🔥 IMPROVEMENT Removed categories in Icons section
🔥 IMPROVEMENT “Getting started” for developers connected to Readme.md on Github repo

🎉 NEW! Added implementation API for components
🔥 IMPROVEMENT Added possibility to copy HEX of color by clicking on the color tile