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Carbon for IBM Products Community
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The Community package has two primary goals in mind: to host experimental components / patterns and to enable teams to share code that may not be officially supported or documented through the design system guild.
Traditionally, components and patterns are defined by design, approved via DSAG, developed by the C4P team, and then added to the core library. The Community package represents a different approach to this system. If a product team or developer believes they have organically developed a new pattern or noticed a recurring design that hasn't been defined as an official pattern and wants to share it with the larger Carbon for IBM Products community, they can contribute it for others to leverage even as the design use cases are being defined.
One of the biggest concerns with design-driven development is that there are some limitations to the design process that are not immediately clear until it reaches the development phase. Accessibility is one of the biggest concerns in modern UI development. While design tools may allow for some accessibility checks out of the box, such as color contrast or font size, some components and patterns have far more complex accessibility concerns that a designer may not be able to take into account. Issues with focus and keyboard navigation do not become noticeable until you can interact with code in the browser. By allowing development to happen in tandem with design, these limitations are discovered far more quickly in the design cycle and can be fixed much more quickly. The Community package can act as a prototyping environment where development and design can work together simultaneously to improve these kinds of UX concerns.