Cycle 2025.1: data insights with a single image

[ikesau]

Making it possible to publish data insights with only one file, and updating the designs to assume this as the default going forward

Motivation

Having to create 2 static visualizations per DI significantly increases the overhead in giving feedback and making revisions. We want to halve this by making it so that DIs only use one square image going forward.

Proposed scope

Figma

Must do

• Update DI feed page to make the sections narrower
• Update DI typography and spacing
• Update the homepage to use the square image
• Update the way images are rendered in data insights
  • Ensure og:image is still set correctly, and the Atom feed image.

Technical notes

I think something like a preferSmall option for the Image component will be a nice way to migrate all previous DIs that have 2 images specified, while also allowing authors to only specify filename in archie going forward (filename is mandatory whereas smallFilename is optional - the other potential solution would be to change this so that validation ensures that either one or both are defined and then handle that in the Image component, but that seems more likely to leak into other parts of the site)