2023-04-12 Meeting notes

Paragon Sandbox

Adam Stankiewicz

One of the goals of Paragon is to improve collaboration between designers and engineers during product delivery.

Currently, the only way for an engineer to share in-progress UI work with a designer is through screenshots, screen recordings, synchronously sharing screens, hosting the MFE development branch on a sandbox, and/or merging to master in order to link to a stage URL.

We’ve been tracking clicks on a “Visit playground” button acting as a painted door experiment to gauge interest in the potential feature.

The CTA gets clicked by about ~15 users per month from about ~350 monthly active users (roughly 5% of users click it); 60 total clicks in the last 90 days.

We want to take this experiment a step further by actually implementing something usable for the Paragon playground/sandbox via https://github.com/openedx/paragon/issues/2181.

Examples:

• https://github.com/seek-oss/playroom

• Shopify Polaris (uses playroom)

• Chakra UI

Discussion/brainstorm:

• What value would you find from having such a tool available to you? What features would be needed to make it useful?

• How might you use such a tool to improve collaboration between designers and engineers during product delivery?

Next steps:

• Raccoon Gang plans to do some technical discovery about https://github.com/seek-oss/playroom