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1. SMASHING CONFERENCE SAN FRANCISCO 04.06.2016 living design systems @JINA LEAD DESIGNER, DESIGN SYSTEMS #designsystem
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3. user experience #designsystem
4. @salesforceux #designsystem #designsystem
5. @jina LEAD DESIGNER, DESIGN SYSTEMS SALESFORCE #designsystem
6. “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 #designsystem
7. why did salesforce need a design system? #designsystem
8. product design in an enterprise organization can be tricky! #designsystem
9. 17
 years of legacy #designsystem
10. 20K+
 employees #designsystem
11. lots of products #designsystem
12. sales #designsystem Sales Cloud SalesforceIQ Data.com
13. service Service Cloud Desk.com #designsystem
14. marketing Marketing Cloud Pardot #designsystem
15. community Community Cloud Chatter #designsystem
16. analytics Wave Analytics Wave Apps #designsystem
17. apps App Cloud Force.com Heroku Enterprise #designsystem
18. internet
 of things IoT Cloud Thunder #designsystem
19. lots of
 platforms & devices #designsystem
20. lots of people #designsystem
21. dozens of scrum teams hundreds of developers small team of designers #designsystem
22. design for scale #designsystem
23. design for configuration #designsystem
24. #designsystem
25. #designsystem Where can I find the icons? What color is the button border? Where can I find the icons?
26. redlines? #designsystem
27. #designsystem
28. #designsystem
29. #designsystem
30. #FML #designsystem
31. #designsystem design pages
32. “A fractured process makes for a fractured user experience” — NATE FORTIN #designsystem
33. #designsystem design systems
34. style guides are all
 the rage …and they have come a long way #designsystem
35. styleguides.io #designsystem
36. #designsystem
37. alistapart.com/article/writingainterfacestyleguide
38. brand & design standards front-end standards keep your style guide current & useful #designsystem
39. former salesforce1 style guide
40. #designsystem How do I get my app
 to look like this?
41. #designsystem Can I use the CSS
 in my app?
42. our partners & customers want: to look & feel like salesforce our design guidelines & best practices resources & tools to get it done to keep up with our design iterations to do it the official salesforce way #designsystem
43. trustworthy #designsystem
44. zombie style guides #designsystem
45. it must be living #designsystem
46. “…style guides. Now, it’s design systems. Is this just a change in
 the marketing, or are these 
 things actually different from 
 one another?” — JARED SPOOL
 “BUILDING SCALABLE DESIGN SYSTEMS AND STYLE GUIDES - A UI20 PODCAST WITH NATHAN CURTIS” #designsystem
47. #designsystem
48. lightning experience #designsystem
49. salesforce.com/designsystem
50. consistent with the salesforce lightning UI #designsystem
51. “…great design systems 
 are usable by your 
 entire team.” — MARK OTTO #designsystem
52. medium.com/eightshapes-llc/team-models-for-scaling-a-design-system-2cf9d03be6a0
53. team model #1: solitary a solitary model sees a one team make 
 a system available, but with efforts focused 
 primarily on that team’s needs #designsystem VIA TEAM MODELS FOR SCALING A DESIGN SYSTEM BY NATHAN CURTIS
54. team model #2: centralized a single, central design team produces 
 and supports a system used by others 
 as a part of their job #designsystem VIA TEAM MODELS FOR SCALING A DESIGN SYSTEM BY NATHAN CURTIS
55. team model #3: federated designers from multiple product teams 
 decide on the system together #designsystem VIA TEAM MODELS FOR SCALING A DESIGN SYSTEM BY NATHAN CURTIS
56. medium.com/salesforce-ux/the-salesforce-team-model-for-scaling-a-design-system-d89c2a2d404b
57. a cyclical team model design system informs product design product design informs design system #designsystem
58. our centralized design systems team acts as a librarian, distributor, and facilitator, and we make sure it is maintained and crafted with quality #designsystem
59. our centralized team product design frontend developers (css framework) accessibility visual design ux engineers (infrastructure & distribution) #designsystem
60. our federated design systems contributors distributed throughout the organization keep the Design System accurate, current, & actually useful #designsystem
61. our federated team product & platform designers prototypers researchers additional ux engineers #designsystem
62. “A Design System isn’t a project. It’s a product, serving products.” — NATHAN CURTIS #designsystem
63. to design at salesforce
 is to consider the
 whole ecosystem #designsystem
64. plan with a roadmap #designsystem
65. do user research #designsystem
66. “Design considerations beat design patterns. Test and decide; don’t just copy things like the hamburger icon.” — LUKE WROBLEWSKI #designsystem
67. “While a company is growing fast, there is nothing more important than constant communication and complete alignment.” — MARC BENIOFF #designsystem
68. have a clear vision to
 align efforts #designsystem
69. lists in priority order #designsystem
70. bring designers, engineers, 
 & product managers together around a single goal #designsystem
71. drive design decisions with design principles #designsystem
72. clarity Eliminate ambiguity. Enable people to see, understand, and act 
 with confidence. #designsystem
73. efficiency Streamline and optimize workflows. Intelligently anticipate needs to help people work better, smarter, and faster. #designsystem
74. consistency Create familiarity and strengthen intuition by applying the same solution to the same problem. #designsystem
75. beauty Demonstrate respect for 
 people’s time and attention through thoughtful and 
 elegant craftsmanship. #designsystem
76. UI inventory Audit your UI by categorizing all the different types of components you have, along with their variants. #designsystem
77. #designsystem
78. #designsystem
79. #designsystem
80. standardize
 & consolidate #designsystem
81. take component notes layouts, responsive behaviors, visual differentiation, states, 
 keyboard navigation, usage guidelines, and accessibility requirements #designsystem
82. open-ended questions
 & action items #designsystem
83. list the people involved especially design and engineering leads #designsystem
84. it’s all components #designsystem
85. design patterns & guidelines #designsystem
86. color neutrals #designsystem primaries secondaries
87. visual messaging #designsystem
88. visual differentiation #designsystem
89. visual hierarchy #designsystem
90. accessibility #designsystem
91. localization & internationalization #designsystem
92. “…Creating a positive experience
 is not about having best practices. It’s about putting those practices into the right hands.” — BRENDON CORNWELL #designsystem
93. resources including HTML, CSS, icons, & fonts #designsystem
94. empower designers design & iterate more efficiently in the browser #designsystem
95. how do we maintain consistency across a massive organization? #designsystem
96. how do we make future visual design
 changes faster? #designsystem
97. how do we keep 
 our design
 system agnostic? #designsystem
98. single source of truth #designsystem
99. assets are stored in repository & automatically updated in the app & style guide #designsystem
100. design tokens the basic atoms of the Lightning Design System #designsystem
101. design tokens help us scale design across both web & native applications #designsystem
102. some types of design tokens font weights, sizes, families, & line-heights colors for background, text, & borders shadows spacing & sizing animation durations z-indexes breakpoints #designsystem
103. designers refer to
 design tokens in
 their specifications #designsystem
104. #designsystem
105. theo open source tool by salesforce UX to generate design tokens #designsystem
106. theo JSON file converts to: Lightning Sass Less Stylus JSON (iOS) XML (Android) style guide color swatches (Photoshop & Sketch) #designsystem
107. THEO { "name": "COLOR_TEXT", "value": "#000", "category": "text-color", "comment": "Body text" } #designsystem LIGHTNING <!-- Body text color --> <aura:var name="colorText" value="#000" /> SASS // Body text $color-text: #000;
108. CSS — hex iOS — RGBA Android — 8-digit hex #designsystem
109. CSS — rem/em/px iOS — pt Android — sp/dip #designsystem
110. design tokens
111. design tokens: background colors
112. design tokens: font sizes
113. design tokens: radiuses
114. color swatches #designsystem
115. framework agnostic #designsystem
116. no more
 hard-coded values #designsystem
117. empower developers provide developers scalable & accessible code at beginning of 
 development cycle #designsystem
118. design system components our ui library/css framework #designsystem
119. building an enterprise framework is tricky! #designsystem
120. clarity efficiency consistency beauty #designsystem
121. clarity > brevity #designsystem
122. namespaced classes with scoping option #designsystem
123. .slds-button__icon--x-small #designsystem NAMESPACE BLOCK ELEMENT MODIFIER
124. scoping Wrapping styles in a class for components that live in an environment that uses other CSS frameworks or legacy code. #designsystem
125. HTML <div class="slds"> <!-- Your components here --> </div> #designsystem SASS ul li { margin-left: 20px; } .slds li { margin-left: 0; }
126. living style guide #designsystem + =
127. don’t make it until you need it! (be lean) #designsystem
128. living specifications #designsystem
129. #DeathToRedlines #designsystem
130. “Freed from some of the daily tedium that can come with being a designer, I can shift the bulk of my time and energy to looking at the bigger picture.” — KATEY BASYE #designsystem
131. living #designsystem
132. how do we lower the bar for adoption? #designsystem
133. minimize dependencies #designsystem
134. you don’t know what you don’t know What makes up your ecosystem? Who are your customers? Where are your potential footprints? #designsystem
135. Tokens Icons HTML CSS Guidelines #designsystem
136. no JavaScript‽ #designsystem
137. Lightning React Angular jQuery etc. #designsystem
138. information architecture + documentation to demonstrate outcome #designsystem
139. component states
140. component states
141. component states
142. component states
143. component states
144. component states
145. component states
146. we have to be 
 forward thinking while backward compatible #designsystem
147. 3
 supported versions #designsystem
148. current
 production release #designsystem
149. previous
 production release #designsystem
150. future
 production release #designsystem
151. deprecation #designsystem
152. as a developer How do I keep track of changes? When is the right time to deprecate? What kind of impact would deprecating a class have on a customers product? #designsystem
153. as a consumer How do I know what is deprecated? What kind of guidance will I be given? How long will I have to upgrade? #designsystem
154. component states
155. Sass Deprecate! #designsystem
156. $app-version: '1.0.0'; #designsystem
157. $version version in which you want code to deprecate #designsystem
158. $message reason why, or possible workaround #designsystem
159. #designsystem $app-version: '1.0.0'; .slds-button__icon { width: 1rem; height: 1rem; } version 1.0.0
160. #designsystem $app-version: '2.0.0'; @include deprecate('3.0.0', 'use .slds-icon instead') { .slds-button__icon { width: 1rem; height: 1rem; } } version 2.0.0
161. #designsystem 0 15 30 45 60 Release 1 Release 2 Release 3 Release 4 Release 5 Normal CSS Deprecated CSS
162. medium.com/@kaelig/introducing-design-systems-ops-7f34c4561ba7
163. distance from concept to user #designsystem fidelity fades as it gets closer to the user
164. distance with design systems #designsystem fidelity keeps a lot steadier along the way
165. distance with design systems + ops #designsystem reduced inefficiencies, increasing fidelity of software delivery
166. #designsystem CODE LINE
 OPENS CODE LINE
 OPENS FEATURE
 FREEZE RELEASE
 FREEZE GA &
 OPEN SOURCE UI FREEZE GA COMPONENT
 DESIGN FREEZE FEATURE
 FREEZE engineering design system MARKUP HANDOFF
167. make better
 design decisions #designsystem
168. “The more decisions you put off, and the longer you delay them, the more expensive they become.” — CRAIG VILLAMOR, CHIEF DESIGN ARCHITECT, SALESFORCE #designsystem
169. clarity > efficiency > consistency > beauty #designsystem
170. design principles > design standards #designsystem
171. evangelize internally 
 & to your external partners #designsystem
172. support adoption through education & consultation #designsystem
173. advisory boards
 & office hours #designsystem
174. show the impact through examples & metrics #designsystem
175. onward & upward #designsystem
176. “Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may 
 be violent and original in your work.” — GUSTAVE FLAUBERT #designsystem
177. open source #designsystem
178. github.com/salesforce-ux/theo github.com/salesforce-ux/sass-deprecate github.com/salesforce-ux/design-system #designsystem
179. designsystems.herokuapp.com #designsystem
180. #designsystem
181. @themixinsf #designsystem
182. thank you! @jina @salesforceUX #designsystem