June 2023

Documentation updates

28th June

Card examples moved to Magnolia section as these are specific to the public website

Cards have been moved into Foundation elements as they are no longer components

Updated the Standard Life digital guidelines to include a section on cards and surfaces to highlight the guidelines

Cards documentation rewritten with an overview and card and tile details

Provided examples on cards about how to overlay cards on surfaces

Added information to the Standard Life surfaces guidelines around how cards should overlap inverted surfaces

Updated the Standard Life Typography with more details about Ubuntu font usage and relinked the Ariel Library

Added default and inverted light link examples to the Standard Life typography guidelines

Figma Updates

Updated the default cards as better starters

Removed placeholder slot bespoke styles and used existing palette colours

Moved composed card from the Web file to the Public Website Library

21st June

Standard Life Style Blocks Supporting colours removed as they were no longer required

Badge component documentation has been updated to remove the supporting colours and defined the remaining colour

Badges Figma file was updated to remove the dark theme and supporting colours

Changed the page "Style Blocks" to "Surfaces" to make the terminology consistent

Removed the static image from Surface Styles and created a dynamic Figma frame that can be built upon with more examples

Created a new surfaces page to explain how surfaces should be used generally and specifically for Standard Life

Rewrote a section of the Standard Life digital guidelines removing supporting colour information and introducing surfaces

8th June

Restructured and added more information to Branching in Figma

Moved the information about commenting on live component files

7th June

Icon Buttons with a label are now available for web, docs and figma have been updates

Added two examples to the Empty State page, including the new button patterns

Figma Updates

Buttons updated to include focus state and icon button + Label

Empty State updated with new button groups

Modals updates with new button groups

Added a few sentences about preparing component proposals early in the contribution documenation

Added more images and context around branching to our Figma Section

5th June

NEW: After much requests we added a Changelog to track updates to our docs

Figma examples have been updates

Buttons has had a refresh:

Clearer state definition

Button styles based on surface guideance

New defintions on delete buttons and double opt out

The success button style has been removed, it was agreed to use a primary button

Button Groups has had a rewrite with new rules

Buttons now align to the left on medium breakpoints, check out the new spacing

Cards will follow the same rules for button updates, documentation released seperately

Added instructions for buttons on surfaces

Instructions for do and don'ts when button length vary

Form guidelines have been updated to include a double spacing of 32px between button groups and the last field element.