Origami Blog

A blog for announcements relating to the Origami team, components, and services. Subscribe to our feed for updates.

2024

1. June Newsletter

   We've released new design guidelines, components, and service dashboards.

   Posted 15 July 2024 by Lee Moody. Tagged Newsletter.

2. May Newsletter

   Origami V3 in production; design guideline led website grows; Origami neighbourhood, a community of design libraries and documentation assets.

   Posted 29 May 2024 by Lee Moody. Tagged Newsletter.

3. January Newsletter

   Hello new Origami; Goodbye Registry; Goodbye Sass.

   Posted 12 February 2024 by Lee Moody. Tagged Newsletter.

4. Sass Build Times

   Sass build times got you down? Enable Sass monitoring in your project and let us know.

   Posted 24 January 2024 by Lee Moody.

2023

1. November Newsletter

   Origami releases experimental O3 Button, updates on improvements to documentation and bootcamps.

   Posted 30 November 2023 by Ben Freshwater. Tagged Newsletter.

2. Introducing "Origami for Everyone"

   Origami For Everyone will support the FT to create differentiated products, targeting different audiences, by scaling Origami to support more brands and platforms.

   Posted 14 August 2023 by Rhys Evans.

3. Origami data visualisation

   Racing bar charts that tell a story of Origami component development over time

   Posted 2 August 2023 by Akaki Mikaia.

4. Goodbye Sass?

   Origami For Everyone means major technical changes for Origami. Does this mean we should move away from Sass?

   Posted 21 June 2023 by Lee Moody. Tagged Sass.

5. Origami Newsletter, April 2023 - May 2023

   Origami is preparing two talks for June. We released FT Professional themes for a bunch of components. We started working on Origami For Everyone(O3) and we started talking to other organisations to share knowledge about design systems.

   Posted 31 May 2023 by Akaki Mikaia. Tagged Newsletter.

6. Origami Newsletter, March 2023

   Featuring FT Professional updates; front-end technology tooling maps; TSX templates and Storybook demos; and the bit where we failed to deliver around 9k image requests each day due to a confusing and unprompted error, affecting pretty much every FT Group product.

   Posted 29 march 2023 by Lee Moody. Tagged Newsletter.

7. Origami Newsletter, February 2023

   Origami updates on its new components and work exploring options for a Multi-brand design system

   Posted 3 march 2023 by Ben Freshwater. Tagged Newsletter.

8. Origami Newsletter, January 2023

   Origami has more team members; Storybook templates; More accessibility improvements; New CLI tool to create new components.

   Posted 30 January 2023 by Akaki Mikaia. Tagged Newsletter.

2022

1. Updated Focus Styles

   We've released new focus styles to improve the accessibility of FT Group products which use Origami.

   Posted 14 December 2022 by Lee Moody.

2. Origami Newsletter, March 2022

   A new Origami component ft-concept-button (:blobaww:); more accessibility fixes (:blob-hype:); an update on the Bower and Origami Build Service v2 migration (:blobhelp:).

   Posted 30 march 2022 by Lee Moody. Tagged Newsletter.

3. Origami Newsletter, January 2022

   A belated happy new year to you! The Origami team are off to a flying start. This feature includes many accessibility improvements; app team collaboration; Storybook Stories and JSX templates for components; and ongoing bower to npm migration support.

   Posted 28 January 2022 by Lee Moody. Tagged Newsletter.

2021

1. Origami Newsletter, October 2021

   Origami image sets have moved and improved; the "master" brand is now the "core" brand; we're creating Storybook demos for Origami components.

   Posted 5 November 2021 by lee & chee. Tagged Newsletter.

2. Origami Newsletter, September 2021

   We made a monorepo, and gained a delivery manager

   Posted 5 October 2021 by chee. Tagged Newsletter.

3. Origami Newsletter, July 2021

   New introduction to Origami sessions and special thanks.

   Posted 9 August 2021 by Lee Moody. Tagged Newsletter.

4. Origami npm announcement and guides on how to migrate products

   We have released new versions of Origami components which bring full NPM support and drops support for Bower. This post explains the changes and how to migrate products to the new version.

   Posted 1 July 2021 by Origami.

5. Origami Newsletter, June 2021

   Origami via Bower is deprecated, please migrate to the npm versions. A new autocomplete component has been built and is ready for use.

   Posted 30 June 2021 by Origami team. Tagged Newsletter.

6. Origami Newsletter, May 2021

   The Origami specification is no more

   Posted 1 June 2021 by chee rabbits, lee moody. Tagged Newsletter.

7. Origami Newsletter, March 2021

   Updated Origami workshops. Work has begun to migrate Origami to npm. Reminder, we deprecate FT's Bower Registry in July. 2021 and plan to decomission in July 2022.

   Posted 12 April 2021 by Jake Champion. Tagged Newsletter.

8. Origami Newsletter, February 2021

   This issue is a big one. It covers our progress toward the recently announced npm migration; a new Origami Image Service placeholder image feature; a new Origami Build Service feature to help teams keep components up to date; and a whole bunch more.

   Posted 2 march 2021 by Lee Moody. Tagged Newsletter.

9. Migrating Origami Components to npm and Deprecating the FT Bower Registry

   We are migrating Origami Components from Bower onto the npmjs registry, this will be done by the end of Q2. Once the Origami Components are on npm, the versions on Bower will go into a deprecated state where they have no new features added. Products/Projects which want to get new Origami designs and features will need to migrate to npm.

   Posted 18 January 2021 by Jake Champion. Tagged Newsletter.

2020

1. Origami Newsletter, December 2020

   Origami's new mission

   Posted 29 December 2020 by chee. Tagged Newsletter.

2. Origami Newsletter, November 2020

   This issue features Engine Room, Origami v2, and on-site messaging bugs.

   Posted 1 December 2020 by Lee Moody. Tagged Newsletter.

3. Origami Newsletter, October 2020

   This issue features new introduction to Origami sessions, an o-tracking major, and a proposal to drop Bower support.

   Posted 28 October 2020 by Lee Moody. Tagged Newsletter.

4. Origami Newsletter, September 2020

   This issue features image service cost saving and promoted content teasers.

   Posted 1 October 2020 by Lee Moody. Tagged Newsletter.

5. Origami Newsletter, August 2020

   This issue takes a closer look at some of our regular polyfill and documentation work.

   Posted 4 September 2020 by Lee Moody. Tagged Newsletter.

6. Origami Newsletter, July 2020

   This issue features a tutorial to create a new Origami component, automated "readme" documentation review, and new "indicator" labels.

   Posted 1 August 2020 by Lee Moody. Tagged Newsletter.

7. Origami Newsletter, June 2020

   This issue features accessibility fixes for users and improvements for developers.

   Posted 1 July 2020 by Jake Champion. Tagged Newsletter.

8. Origami Newsletter, May 2020

   This issue features a big Fastly cost saving, new font formats, and a major release of Origami Build Tools.

   Posted 1 June 2020 by Lee Moody. Tagged Newsletter.

9. Origami Newsletter, April 2020

   This issue features the Origami Component Survey, Automating Visual Testing of Origami Components and moving from CircleCI to GitHub Actions

   Posted 1 May 2020 by Jake Champion. Tagged Newsletter.

10. Origami Survey Results, Building Components

    Some charts outlining the results of our recent survey titled "Origami Survey: Building Components"

    Posted 20 April 2020 by Rowan Manning.

11. Origami Newsletter, March 2020

    This issue features remote first working, deep spring cleaning, and an improved release workflow.

    Posted 1 April 2020 by Lee Moody. Tagged Newsletter.

12. Origami Newsletter, February 2020

    A new component, a project board and a post-mortem.

    Posted 2 march 2020 by Chee Rabbits. Tagged Newsletter.

13. CSS Grid In Chrome 80

    Users of Google Chrome may recently have seen a broken layout for many of our internal tools and products which use the o-layout component. Users of Firefox, Safari, and other browsers were not affected. In this post we'll discuss what changed in Chrome 80.

    Posted 17 February 2020 by Lee Moody.

14. Origami Newsletter, January 2020

    This issue features some changes to our Slack channels, a replacement for the Origami Open Meeting, an update on the Major Cascade, and a number of polyfill.io improvements including a new nodeJS library.

    Posted 31 January 2020 by Rowan Manning. Tagged Newsletter.

2019

1. Major Cascade 2019

   We are working on a major release of low level components like o-typography. In this post we'll discuss what improvements are being made and how they further our aims to help bring design consistency and reduce the time teams spend repeating work.

   Posted 31 October 2019 by Lee Moody.

2. Origami Newsletter, October 2019

   This issue covers an upcoming major new release of our components including o-typography, o-colors, and o-buttons; plus we discuss our new Continuous Integration tools.

   Posted 31 October 2019 by Lee Moody. Tagged Newsletter.

3. Origami Newsletter, July 2019

   This issue talks about the summit, bundle sizes and how we saved $2000

   Posted 31 July 2019 by chee rabbits. Tagged Newsletter.

4. Origami Newsletter, June 2019

   This issue announces a new team member, covers improvements to our operational documentation, and some projects that we built in our 10% time.

   Posted 28 June 2019 by Rowan Manning. Tagged Newsletter.

5. Origami Newsletter, May 2019

   This issue features a new and improved version of o-forms, a new component o-spacing, and fancy new features to our colour contrast checker.

   Posted 31 May 2019 by Lee Moody. Tagged Newsletter.

6. Origami Newsletter, April 2019

   This issue features improvements to the image service, a new table filtering feature, and two new browser polyfills.

   Posted 30 April 2019 by Lee Moody. Tagged Newsletter.

7. Origami Newsletter, March 2019

   This issue features the new Origami website, a quantitative change in the Polyfill Service's capacity and a clarification on a problem we introduced—and promptly recitified—regarding our components

   Posted 29 march 2019 by Gabrielle von Koss. Tagged Newsletter.

8. Origami Site Update

   We re-launched the Origami website and Origami component registry.

   Posted 11 march 2019 by Lee Moody.

9. Origami Newsletter, Feburary 2019

   This issue features Origami on npm, a new major release of o-layout, and a new major release of o-header-services.

   Posted 28 February 2019 by Lee Moody. Tagged Newsletter.

10. Origami Newsletter, January 2019

    This issue features a new component named o-stepped-progress, a new beta for o-header-services, and the release of the Polyfill Service v3.

    Posted 30 January 2019 by Rowan Manning. Tagged Newsletter.