| Initial research |
Research/Investigate |
Ideation board |
Identify adopter pain points, ideate, Identify proper IA placement, and identify proper level of details and fidelity |
Adopter needs and pain points |
Assignee/Content creator |
Ideation |
| Publishing agreement |
Planning |
Ideation board |
Get the content needs agreed by the DDS leaders and create proper Epic or Task issue on Git for prioritization |
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Proposed by the website stream lead and approved by the DDS leaders |
Planning |
| Collect content documentation |
Research |
Agile board |
Gather designs and specs, gather content guidance (and/or content model), gather developer notes, and gather research notes |
Designer, content strategist, developer, and researcher of pattern must be available to share documentation and relevant assets. contributor may need to write documentation
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Task assignee/Content creator |
1 (week one) |
| Fill in the content template |
Creation |
Agile board and Box document |
Take all documentation and assign to pattern content template and add new subsections as per pattern needs |
See above |
Task assignee/Content creator |
1 (week one) |
| Produce supporting assets |
Creation |
Agile board, Sketch app, or Photoshop |
Do's and don'ts, visuals to support each sections and/or subsections of written guidelines, and Video/diagram/specs |
Contributor to share [draft] assets and work with the Visual/UX Designer to ensure the assets are accurate |
Task assignee/Content creator |
1 (week two)–2 (week one) |
| Create draft design mockup |
Creation |
Agile board or Sketch app |
Create mockup of page with content and visuals and share mockup with all contributors for feedback |
Availability of all contributors |
Task assignee/Content creator or Visual/UX Designer |
2 (week one) |
| Share with the team to get feedback |
Review |
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2 (week one) |
| Update content or design |
Creation |
Agile board or Sketch app |
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All contributors have reviewed |
Task assignee/Content creator or Visual/UX Designer |
2 (week two) |
| Share with Carbon, IDL, ibm.com adopters |
Review |
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Gather feedback from teams on content and page design |
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Task assignee/Content creator or Visual/UX Designer |
2 (week two) |
| Finalize documentation and update copy |
Creation |
Agile board or Sketch app |
Add any additional Carbon comments, ensure language and style is consistent and updated, and writer review and proof |
Availability of Carbon |
Task assignee/Content creator or Visual/UX Designer |
2 (week two) |
| (Optional0 Review with IDL governance board |
Review |
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Share/present pattern to IDL board for approval |
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Task assignee/Content creator or Visual/UX Designer |
2 (week two) |
| Finalize content and documentation |
Creation |
Agile board or Sketch app |
Add any additional Carbon Board comments, ensure language and style is consistent and updated, writer review and proof, and review with DDS leaders for approval |
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Task assignee/Content creator or Visual/UX Designer |
2 (week two) |
| Create a new page and publish on website |
Publish |
Agile board and GitHub (markdowns and html code) |
Publishing with markdown by Visual/UX Designer, publishing with code by a Developer (as needed), PR preview link is ready, and PR review request set |
Final pattern documentation has been reviewed and approved, patterns and guidelines have been approved by Carbon review board, and all assets must be made available to publishers |
Task assignee/Content creator or Visual/UX Designer |
2 (week two) |
| Website page go live |
Release |
Agile board and GitHub |
QA via the preview link and approve the PR and merge the PR to master branch |
Jenkins built |
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2 (week two) |
| Get adopter feedback |
Review |
Ideation board and Cupcake website |
Update roadmap / GitHub, Slack communications, spot opportunity and make plan for improvement,and Catalog/consolidate feedback |
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Task assignee/Content creator or Visual/UX Designer |
Iteration starts |