Foundational components

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To help prioritize what we standardize before our next round of projects, Scott and I started working on a list of standards that make up the majority of our pages / design effort. The idea is that if we prioritize finishing these, then our future projects will save a lot of time because the majority of the components they need to use will already have a standard in the manual:

Published standards that are pretty solid:

• Buttons
• Links
• Grid

Standards that are still in the process of being refined/completed:

• Hero sections Design Patterns for Page Intros #337 Hero graphic standards and hierarchy #301
• Layouts Page layout guidelines #291
• Alignment of copy with images multi-column alignment of blurbs with isocons/illustrations, sometimes with buttons or links #326
• Expandable sections Expandable sections #143
• Tabs Tabs #233
• Tooltips Finalize tooltips style + functionality #139 Inline tooltips #335
• Form fields Radio Button and Checkbox style #236 checkbox & radio button style with visibly larger hit area #290 Forms: Dropdown styles #229
• Button and link usage rules Button vs Link Usage #338 Links - when to use the arrow minicon #264

Standards that aren't very defined yet

• Tables Tables #153
• Modals Modal window usage and styling #231
• Alerts, validation and error messaging
• Tags
• Filters
• Pagination Pagination #148