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Introducing the Salesforce Lightning Design System Jina Bolton Senior Designer, Design Systems Salesforce UX Brandon Ferrua Senior Developer, Design Systems Salesforce UX

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Introducing the Salesforce Lightning Design SystemJina Bolton Senior Designer, Design Systems Salesforce UX

Brandon Ferrua Senior Developer, Design Systems Salesforce UX

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user experience

@jinaSenior Designer, Design Systems, Salesforce UX

@bferruaSenior Developer, Design Systems, Salesforce UX

“It used to be that designers made an object and walked away. Today

the emphasis must shift to designing the entire life cycle.”

— PAUL SAFFO

Salesforce1

Design for Scale & Maintainability

Support Multiple Platforms & Devices

Dozens of Scrum Teams Hundreds of Developers Small Team of Designers

Where can I find the icons?

Where can I find the icons?

What color is the button border?

Redlines

Design Pages

Design Pages

Design Systems

The Style Guide

Last year at Dreamforce, we talked to many partners & customers

about our Style Guide

Last year at Dreamforce, we talked to many partners & customers

about our Style Guide

How do I get my app to look like this?

Can I use the CSS in my app?

Partners want their apps to look like Salesforce

You asked for Salesforce design best practices

You were reverse engineering our code in the style guide (Inspect Element)

A 3rd-party Bootstrap Salesforce-theme was created and used outside of our team

It was not maintained by us, so quickly grew out of sync with our UI design updates

Many partner apps look & work great but don’t feel like Salesforce due to lack of resources

Rapidly changing designs

Lightning Experience

A solution that works for us…and hopefully for you, too.

Lightning Design SystemThe next generation of living style guides

Lightning Design System

Design Guidelines

CSS Framework

Resources

Tutorials & Documentation

lightningdesignsystem.com

Design PrinciplesIntentionally ordered by priority

clarityEliminate ambiguity. Enable people to see, understand, and act with confidence.

efficiencyStreamline and optimize workflows. Intelligently anticipate needs to help people work better, smarter, and faster.

consistencyCreate familiarity and strengthen intuition by applying the same solution to the same problem.

beautyDemonstrate respect for people’s time and attention through thoughtful and elegant craftsmanship.

How do we keep colors, spacing, sizing, etc. consistent?

How do we make future visual design changes faster?

How do we keep our design system agnostic?

Single Source of Truth

Assets are stored in repository and automatically updated in the app

and style guide

Design TokensThe basic atoms of the Design System

Design Tokens help us scale our design across web applications,

prototypes, native platforms, etc.

Types of Design Tokens

Font Families, Sizes, & Weights

Line Heights

Colors for Background, Text, & Borders

Shadows

Spacing & Sizing

Animation Durations

Theo

Open source tool by Salesforce UX to generate Design Tokens

Theo JSON file converts to:

Lightning

Sass

Less

Stylus

JSON (iOS)

XML (Android)

Style Guide

Color Swatches (Photoshop & Sketch)

Theo

{

"name": "COLOR_TEXT",

"value": "#000",

"category": "text-color",

"comment": "Body text"

}

Lightning

<!-- Body text color -->

<aura:var name="colorText" value="#000" />

Sass

// Body text

$color-text: #000;

Design Tokens

Design Tokens: Background Colors

Design Tokens: Font Sizes

Design Tokens: Radiuses

No more hard-coded values

Designers refer to Design Tokens in their specifications.

Color Swatches

Design System ComponentsCSS Framework + UI Library

Let’s talk the CSS Framework

Empower DevelopersProvide developers scalable & accessible code at beginning of development cycle

Empower DesignersDesign & iterate more efficiently in the browser

Living Style Guide

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CSS ArchitecturePowered by the Design System

Dependencies

Design Tokens

Objects/Components

Lightweight

Modular

Reusable

Utilities

Non-semantic

Single Purpose

Component

Component Variant

Component Overview

So what does this mean for you!?

Better Designer + Developer Communication

No more proliferation of inconsistent styles

Resources

Lightning Design System

Design Guidelines

CSS Framework

Resources

Tutorials & Documentation

lightningdesignsystem.com/resources/downloads

developer.salesforce.com/trailhead/module/lightning_design_system

dreamforce-ux.herokuapp.com

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