January 4, 2021

Issue 9: Happy New Year from the Mineral Team

Issue 9

Happy New Year! May You Enjoy Health, Happiness and Usable Design Components!

2021 is upon us and it’s shaping up to be spectacular, and Mineral is going to do its part to help make it the best year ever. The Mineral system has grown quickly, but we have so much more planned for the upcoming year.

But before we move on completely, let’s celebrate a little of what was done in 2020. Don’t remember it all? No worries, here's a review:

2020 Highlights

• Launched an easy-to-use website where you can get to all of our work
• Created the Mineral Contribution Model
• Started a Component Roadmap... and completed over 65% of “baseline” items
• Published the Mineral Style Guide
• Created the Mineral Figma Component Library, with over 475 easily accessed components so far, some with many additional variants
• Documented our Accessibility Guidelines
• Released and continually improved the @mineral/core, @mineral/icons, and @mineral/tokens packages, each driven by a tested CI/CD pipeline
• Launched our Storybook, with package and component documentation, backed by unit, integration, and visual regression tests, as well as automated accessibility checks
• Onboarded our first contributor who landed her first PR, with plans for others after the new year
• Opened the UI Engineering Center of Excellence Google Chat room (all newsletter subscribers were invited)

Up Next

There’s so much to do in 2021 and beyond!

1. Lots more components. Right now, we know of needs for Dialog, Switch, Stepper, and FileChooser. Does your team need a specific component? Let us know!
2. Outreach! Yeah we said it. In the following months, as Mineral achieves our “baseline” state, we’ll be reaching out more proactively to learn more about how we can help you.