Dear Community,
We are having a last focused deep-dive discussion about Style Guides vs Design Systems, before the Micro Frontend Squad makes a recommendation to the TAC this Friday.
Everyone is welcome (especially if you have strong feelings/thoughts about our front-end and Style Guide future) to attend.
The goal is to identify a reasonable approach, which the MFE squad will commit to trying out and reporting back to the community about the experience and progress. This does have big implications for our design approach in the future.
When: August 25 8:30pm IST | 6pm Nairobi | 5pm Cape Town | 3pm UTC | 11am Boston | 8am Seattle
Where: https://iu.zoom.us/j/808207890
Goal of this last deep-dive: Review analysis and comparisons of Carbon and Lightning, with concrete visual examples of the patient chart.
- Visual comparison of data-heavy EMR screen (Patient Chart View) example from both Carbon and Lightning - UX Designer Ciaran
- Compare key points of using Carbon vs Lightning with style guide vs design system approach - @bistenes @mksrom & Ciaran
Background: This is not about going back and applying a new system to the Ref App right away, but rather, looking at what is reasonable to start designing with and implementing through the Micro Frontend squad (this is blocking their design work). However because this has future community-wide implications, we are trying to make this a broader process. In addition to regular TAC discussions & updates on this topic, we’ve had several other topic threads and open discussion sessions in the last 6 weeks - from July 10 to Aug 19, with updates and calls for input here and here.
What to do if you’re interested:
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Join the call
You can even add it to your own calendar here: 
- Look at Carbon - A design system (carbondesignsystem.com/patterns/overview) and full-fledged component library (carbondesignsystem.com/components/overview).
- Look at Lightning Component Blueprints - A design system (lightningdesignsystem.com/guidelines/overview/) with a CSS-and-guidance only approach to components. Avoids introducing dependencies that we have to worry about upgrading. lightningdesignsystem.com/components/overview/
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See and share the video tutorial Using CSS from Third Party Style Guides. This is an example of how we might easily pull from style guide into our own system via dev tools & copying CSS.
@burke @dkayiwa @florianrappl @mksrom @mksd @dkigen @dkibet @herbert24 @tendomart @insookwa @jwnasambu @gracebish @ssmusoke @angshuonline @michaelbontyes @ibacher @pradiptakundu you will all likely be very interested in attending - please also share/tag others.