Figma release cadence

[Kritvi-bhatia17]

Problem

Our current approach to managing Figma releases lacks structure, resulting in challenges in effectively communicating new Figma releases.

Description

• There is a need to establish a more structured approach to managing Figma releases.
• This involves implementing clear processes for announcing new features, deprecating properties within components, and managing other aspects of Figma releases.
• A structured approach will improve communication, organization, and coordination throughout the release process.

Notes:

Initial Goal: At the moment, we're focused on figuring out how to organize the pushing of our kits and documenting the process. We're also considering putting designers on a rotation to share this responsibility, similar to how developers do.

Later Goal: As we move forward, we may explore leveraging the same Slack bot currently used for dev-related announcements to organize tasks into "dev" and "design" categories.

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Reference/related:

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  ### Guidance

• [ ] [Figma] Tutorial to use theme
• [ ] [Figma] Tutorial or information about Non-variable vs Variable text tokens
• [ ] [Figma] Feature flag
• [ ] [Slack] Make monthly announcements for Figma feature updates
• [ ] [Figma] Slot and Slot groups
• [ ] [Figma] Resizing
• [ ] [Figma] Data table + Resizing

### Announcements
- [ ] Create a task list for which all figma cadence will be required
- [ ] Idea: Use threads if we have too many issues to call out
- [ ] Idea: Maybe make a monthly update on Slack of what we have done in the past month
- [ ] Idea: How can this be automated? Maybe update the Box note and then share the link on Slack 
- [ ] Asking people to open Github issues in the kit instead of leaving the comments in the kit 
- [ ] Code Connect 

[thyhmdo]

@Kritvi-bhatia17 Our team discussed this with Juan. I wrote down tasks but we definitely can update these tasks if we need to refine them more. We'll need to have write-out guidance for each feature on the "Read Me" page and make a monthly announcement on Slack.

[Kritvi-bhatia17]

Got it @thyhmdo, thanks for the update. Sounds good!