Comment by Stroemgren
Comment by Stroemgren 14 hours ago
Congrats on this! - and the latter 94 versions ;D
I appreciate your points. Can you share more about how you interacted with other teams? Did you have resources to help implement the components into products? Did you use any tools or meeting formats to gather feedback and listen to needs?
Thank you! As snide mentions a few threads up, we built a documentation website for the library from day 1, which I think helped folks a lot. I'm not a fan of Storybook -- I prefer docs to present components in realistic situations, and to have code snippets live-side-by-side so someone can say "Hey this is exactly what I need" and copy and paste it into their codebase. For example, form docs should have an example of a complete form with validation, accessibility attributes, help text, and so on. This way the docs act as both an advertisement and as a resource.
Regarding tools, I recall a bunch of stuff. YMMV:
* A presentation to the wider team on the goals of the library.
* GitHub issues outlining technical design of the library -- this was useful for getting buy-in from tech leads.
* One of the consuming developers gave a presentation on how she had implemented a UI using EUI.
I think it just comes down to repetition and, as snide alluded, positioning yourself as a servant instead of an authority. Keep beating the drum, share success stories, and demonstrate that you're responsive to the feedback you're heading from the folks downstream. Good luck!