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Transcript
designing for enterprise @JINA // CREATIVE WORKS // MEMPHIS //
2014
@jina
HOMETOWN // NASHVILLE
COLLEGE TOWN // MEMPHIS
MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART
ODEN MARKETING & DESIGN Interactive Design Intern ROCKET SCIENCE DESIGN
Designer INFERNO Interactive Designer
CURRENT CITY — SAN FRANCISCO
APPLE, INC Front-end UI Developer Visual Interaction Designer CRUSH +
LOVELY Interaction Designer ENGINE YARD User Experience Designer GITHUB Designer DO.COM (formerly by Salesforce) Product Designer
SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER salesforce
— PAUL SAFFO “It used to be that designers made
an object and walked away. Today the emphasis must shift to designing the entire life cycle.”
design for enterprise has big challenges
quality, craft, & consistency
tons of content & complex navigation
accessibility
designing for the future while dealing with legacy
how can we design for enterprise?
design for sustainability
design for customization
design for scale
design pages
design pages
design systems
redlines?
None
redlines for large- scale applications can be a nightmare
style guides are all the rage …AND THEY HAVE COME
A LONG WAY
ALISTAPART.COM/ARTICLE/WRITINGAINTERFACESTYLEGUIDE
Design & Brand Standards Front-end Development Standards Keeping Style Guides
Current & Useful
when style guides aren’t current, they’re not useful
don’t create a zombie
create a living style guide
SFDC-STYLEGUIDE.HEROKUAPP.COM
Responsive prototypes Responsive production framework iOS watch, phones, tablets Android
watch, phones, tablets Win8 phones, tablets Multiple products, acquisitions, & partners
PRIMARY APPLICATION COLORS
APPLICATION AREA COLORS
what if a new color gets added? THE STYLE GUIDE
NEEDS TO BE UPDATED, TOO
TYPEFACES
TYPE SIZES
how do we keep colors, spacing, & sizes consistent?
how do we make future design changes easier?
how do we keep our design system agnostic?
THEO: DESIGN PROPERTY CONVERTER
Sass LESS Stylus AURA JSON XML HTML (style guide) {
{ "name": "COLOR_TEXT", "value": "#444", "category": "text-color", "comment": "Body text
color" } // Body text color $color-text: #444; SASS JSON
{ "name": "COLOR_TEXT", "value": "#444", "category": "text-color", "comment": "Body text
color" } <!-- Body text color --> <aura:var name="colorText" value="#444" /> AURA JSON
{ "name": "COLOR_TEXT", "value": "#444", "category": "text-color", "comment": "Body text
color" } <tr> <td>colorText</td> <td>#444</td> <td style="color:#444;"> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. </td> <td>Body text color</td> </tr> HTML (STYLE GUIDE) JSON
CSS — hex iOS — RGBA ANDROID — 8-digit hex
CSS — rem/em/px iOS — pt ANDROID — sp/dip
developers pull in design properties
no more hard- coded values
GITHUB.COM/SALESFORCE-UX/THEO
assets stored in a repository as scalable vector
STANDARD ICONS
CUSTOM ICONS
ICON FONTS
DOCTYPES
blender: rasterizes SVG as a fallback into various sizes
GITHUB.COM/SALESFORCE-UX/BLENDER
assets display in our style guide automatically
COMPONENTS
EXAMPLES
single source of truth
a change in one place changes everywhere
true consistency
brand customization
UX + engineering collaboration
living design system A COLLABORATION WITH SALESFORCE UX + ENGINEERING
MEDIUM.COM/@SOENKEROHDE/LIVING-DESIGN-SYSTEM-3AB1F2280EF7
— GUSTAVE FLAUBERT “Be regular and orderly in your life
so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
@SALESFORCEUX
DRIBBBLE.COM/SALESFORCE
TWITTER, DRIBBBLE, INSTAGRAM, & GITHUB @jina