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Product roadmap

Here, you’ll find our product roadmap — an up-to-date report on the work we’re doing.

Below is our product roadmap: a long-term plan of the goals, features, and long-term direction of USWDS. We update this frequently with the status of our progress, as well as add new high-level feature requests and ideas.

Current USWDS product roadmap

Updated October 27, 2021

  • Value and benefits
    • Publish journey maps and service blueprint In progress
    • Publish role-based intros to the design system In progress
    • Publish high-level system benefits Done
    • Update product values On deck
    • Create and publish USWDS case studies Upcoming
    • Document undocumented components Upcoming
  • Getting started
    • Expand and test getting started documentation In progress
    • Create multimedia tutorials Upcoming
    • Simplify the build and compile process In progress
    • Focus key pages on site top tasks In progress
    • Create demo site with example settings files Upcoming
    • Improve color guidance Upcoming
  • Resource estimation
    • Collect team composition data from the community Upcoming
    • Publish team composition guidance Upcoming
  • Community engagement
    • Ask the community what it needs In progress
    • Improve contribution guidance In progress
    • Provide better resources for sharing and finding existing implementations On deck
    • Improve open source software practices In progress
  • Iterative improvement
    • Investigate component-based versioning Done
    • Add component changelogs to website In progress
    • Create production-ready component templates In progress
    • Improve migration page Done
    • Improve automated release testing Done
    • Widen the scope of release communications Done
  • Build most-requested new components
    • 404 page template Done
    • Authentication page templates Done
    • Breadcrumb Done
    • Button group Done
    • Card Done
    • Character count Done
    • Combobox Done
    • Data tables Done
    • Date picker Done
    • Date range picker Done
    • Date and time picker Done
    • File input Done
    • Identifier Done
    • Icon list Done
    • Icons Done
    • Input prefix/suffix Done
    • Modal Done
    • Pagination Done
    • Step indicator Done
    • Sortable tables Done
    • Time picker Done
    • Tooltip Done
    • Advanced layout Cancelled
    • Button icon Cancelled
    • Glossary Cancelled
    • Tabs Cancelled
    • Top tasks Cancelled
  • Simplify and improve design assets Done
  • Update USWDS Jekyll theme to USWDS 2 Done
  • Create tailored guides for common user types In progress
  • Rebuild component library In progress
  • Develop contribution model In progress
  • Improve test suite Done