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All the planning under one roof.

React Orbit components updates

For all updates in React components follow our Github repos:

React components releases Design tokens releases

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

Orbit UI Kit updates

UI kit updates on Slack (Kiwi.com only) UI kit updates on Spectrum

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.

orbit.kiwi updates

September 2020

August 2020

July 2020

June 2020

May 2020

April 2020

March 2020

February 2020

January 2020

  • 🎉 NEW! Added guide to retrieving icon images via the icon CDN
  • 🎉 NEW! Added new UI components – Dialog, Seat, TileGroup
  • 🎉 NEW! Added new layout component – LinkList (to replace deprecated NavigationList)
  • 🎉 NEW! Added our very first primitive component – BadgePrimitive
  • 🔥 IMPROVEMENT! Added link to Jira epic and KR reference for our roadmap items
  • 🔥 IMPROVEMENT! To make room for upcoming native mobile implementations, we’ve cleared React Native out of our documentation and added in mobile statuses
  • 🎯 ROADMAP UPDATE Updated current quarter to reflect our OKRs, cleaned future

November 2019

  • 🎉 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

October 2019

September 2019

  • 🎉 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

August 2019

July 2019

  • 🎉 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

June 2019

  • 🎉 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

May 2019

  • 🎉 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

April 2019

  • 🎯 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

March 2019

  • 🎉 NEW! Added standalone UI kit with Roboto typography
  • 🎉 NEW! Added new guidelines for creating carrier logos
  • 🔥 IMPROVEMENT A list of icons is now 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

February 2019

  • 🎯 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

January 2019

  • 🎉 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

December 2018

  • 🎉 NEW! Added new component – ChoiceGroup
  • 🎉 NEW! Added new component – Tag

November 2018

October 2018

  • 🎉 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)

August 2018

  • 🎉 NEW! Added filter mobile/web filter for components to menu
  • 🔥 IMPROVEMENT Added possibility to “copy” icons in

July 2018

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

June 2018

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