Cards: Composability review

[RichKummer]

As a follow-on from the first step, we're now going to start digging into making these components more flexible and composable.

• Pair with dev: At this point, try and find time to chat with a developer about the component. Discuss how they view the component and if they see opportunities to make this more flexible. For Cards, a good dev resource to start with would be David Menendez! He also prototyped a more composable card variant.
• Search Slack channel to see if people ask questions for the component. Are there any themes or patterns?
  • #ibmproducts-pal
  • #ibmproducts-pal-dev (a dev related channel but see if any design issues pop up)
• Briefly check out other design systems for similar components. Component.gallery is useful here. Google’s Material Design and others are also useful.
  • Is there something those are doing that IBM might learn from?
• Focus on ease of use in this step – how can we make this component more flexible and easier for adopters to use for what they need.
• Optional, but I find it useful to look at our Figma libraries to see how designers are using our components/patterns.
• Playback your analysis and findings of the component to the designers, and invite your paired dev as well (put Elysia and/or Matt G. on as optional)

[rachels01]

Work in progress review can be found here:

https://www.figma.com/design/2QsZoaHM3blcrelsRwfw6M/Cards%3A-Composability-Review?node-id=2-1000&t=Tnr36EzfhZPL3WU0-1

I connected with @devadula-nandan, who will be reviewing the questions for development next week and adding in any additional ideas for composability.