Boards in Infa: Organization, Collaboration, and Discovery
Learn about the concept of boards in Infa, their types, use cases, and best practices for effective component organization and collaboration.
What are Boards?
Boards in Infa serve as containers for organizing, managing, and sharing your components and pages. Similar to Miro boards, Figma files, or Jira projects, boards provide a structured way to categorize and access your design system assets.
We at Infa have designed boards to be flexible and adaptable to various workflows, whether you're documenting your design system, researching competitors, or collaborating with team members.
Key Use Cases for Boards
Design System Documentation and Onboarding
Boards excel as onboarding tools for design systems. By creating a comprehensive board of your components:
- New team members can quickly understand your design system's structure
- Components can be viewed in their actual implementation context
- Documentation links and usage guidelines can be centralized
Research and Competitive Analysis
Boards serve as excellent research and analysis tools:
- Collect and organize components from various websites and products
- Compare different implementation approaches side by side
- Track emerging design patterns across the industry
- Organize components by competitor
- Track changes to competitor interfaces over time
- Compare your own components against industry standards
- Identify gaps or opportunities in your design approach
Planning and Refactoring Design Systems
Boards help you plan and implement design system adoption across products:
- Track inconsistent components that need standardization
- Create roadmaps for future design system enhancements
- Identify components requiring refactoring or replacement
- Link components across products using XPath selectors to visualize impact
- Prioritize design system work based on usage patterns
- Monitor design system adoption progress across products