Two of the developers who coded submissions were IAAP certified Web Accessibility Specialists. Let’s be honest, Sparkbox is great at building for accessibility-it’s just how we work. Two developers’ scratch submissions bested the design system for accessibility.Three developers’ hand-coded submissions and Carbon submissions ranked roughly the same for accessibility.Two developers saw their accessibility improve slightly when using the design system.One developer went from last place to the middle of the pack for accessibility when they used the design system.Only one developer’s scratch coding soundly beat their design system submission.The visual consistency score for two of the developers was roughly the same for their from-scratch submission as their Carbon submission.In fact, one developer went from 14th place out of 16 for their scratch submission to first place for their Carbon submission. Visual consistency for five of the eight developers improved when using the design system.The top two submissions for visual consistency used the design system.In fact, only one of the eight developers built a form from scratch that ranked higher in visual consistency than the form they built using Carbon.
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Using a design system helped our developers produce code that was more visually consistent with the design. The Carbon timing included the time the developers spent familiarizing themselves with the design system.
The median time for the scratch submissions was 4.2 hours compared to the 2 hour median time for Carbon submissions. Using a design system made a simple form page 47% faster to develop versus coding it from scratch. The Testīased on our sample of eight Sparkbox developers, we uncovered the following: The individual rankings were combined for an aggregate score. Next, another eight Sparkbox team members reviewed the hand-built forms and Carbon forms for accessibility and for visual consistency, ranking the submissions from best to worst. Then we compared the median and average times to determine efficiency Then they coded the form using the Carbon design system, again while timing themselves. We recruited eight Sparkbox developers to code the form from scratch while timing themselves. Then a Sparkbox designer used Carbon to design a contact form in Figma. We picked a well-known design system that was publicly available, had excellent documentation, and that none our developers had ever used. We wanted more proof, so we decided to test our hypothesis, “design systems help developers produce better code faster.” Our test subjects? A handful of willing Sparkbox developers. But measurement can be challenging, and even here at Sparkbox we’re often relying on anecdotes from our own projects or from self-reported metrics that we’ve gathered from our annual design systems survey. If this hasn’t come across already, we love what we do! Singing is our true passion and the importance of music cannot be emphasised enough and, though often overlooked, it’s a vital part of our children’s education.Design systems are great for developer efficiency, visual consistency, and accessible experiences.
We want to make a positive impact nationwide Read about our Singing School Research project, and what inspired us to take our vision one step further and create Sparkyard. Research is at the heart of what we do and we invest serious time and resources to evaluate our content and processes, to be sure they deliver true value and impact to schools, their teachers and pupils. Proven impact with values-based songs and learning Sparkyard is the result of that vision, and we're so excited to be able to release it to the world. A vision to make good quality, age-appropriate singing resources accessible to all primary schools, all teachers and all pupils. We've been working together to produce singing resources, musicals and nativities for over 30 years, and have always had a BIG vision. We’re by no means a new kid on the block! Our mother company, Out of the Ark Music is the country’s leading publisher of songs in Primary Schools and Early Years settings.
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