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mattfordham
October 17, 2014
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Styleguide Driven Development
Presented at Seattle Interactive Conference 2014
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October 17, 2014
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Styleguide Driven Development SEATTLE INTERACTIVE CONFERENCE / 2014
What? Why? How?
3 MATT FORDHAM PARTNER & TECHNICAL DIRECTOR WWW.WINTR.US / @MATTFORDHAM
None
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6 The traditional styleguide
7 “Mock-ups”, “Comps”, etc
8 The old way ✴ Duplication of code ✴ Inconsistent
code style ✴ Poorly named classes ✴ Visual bugs, regressions ✴ Inconsistent visual system ✴ Generally unmaintainable and expensive
9 A styleguide, in this context, is a developed, “living”
UI library containing all recurring styles used across a project. Styleguide Driven Development is the practice of using the styleguide as the focal point for all front-end UI development tasks. What?
10 Why? Separate content from styling Meter Block (MailChimp) Section
Block (Starbucks)
11 Why? Intent and usage are documented and clear for
all to see Salesforce Twitter Bootstrap
12 Why? Unification and documentation of design variables Salesforce Colors,
padding, margins, font styles, etc
13 Why? ✴ Quicker page build-out ✴ Quicker manual testing
Yelp
14 Why? ✴ Agile-friendly ✴ Easier collaboration for teams
15 Why? It’s technically better! Less redundant CSS = Smaller
file size
16 How? Take an inventory of design (so far) ✴
Colors? ✴ Header levels? ✴ Grid system? ✴ What modules should be created? ✴ How should things be named?
17 How? Define a structure and choose tools ✴ User
a CSS preprocessor (Sass, Stylus, etc) ✴ Use partials, if available
18 How? Use documented code style ✴ Routinely maintained and
version-controlled ✴ Include comments and todos
19 How? Style all base HTML elements Yelp html-ipsum.com ✴
h1, p, ul, ol, li, etc
20 How? Build custom modules ✴ Modules are the heart
of the styleguide ✴ Use a system (BEM, SMACSS, OOCSS) ✴ Make modules small ✴ Make modules versatile
21 How? Module example: The Media Object http://www.stubbornella.org/content/2010/06/25/the-media-object-saves-hundreds-of-lines-of-code/
22
23 How? Document module usage (use a Styleguide generator) Trulia’s
Hologram
24 How? Finally, build some pages and add “glue”, if
necessary
25 Before ✴ What markup and CSS do I need?
After ✴ What modules is this page made of? ✴ Do I need to create any new ones? ✴ Future modules and pages start in styleguide The process
26 Examples ✴ Yelp - http://www.yelp.com/styleguide ✴ MailChimp - http://ux.mailchimp.com/patterns/
✴ Salesforce - http://sfdc-styleguide.herokuapp.com/ ✴ Github - https://github.com/styleguide/css/1.0 ✴ Bootstrap - http://getbootstrap.com/components/
27 Resources ✴ http://alistapart.com/article/creating-style-guides ✴ http://vinspee.me/style-guide-guide/ ✴ http://webuild.envato.com/blog/styleguide-driven-development/ ✴ http://vimeo.com/86928424
Thank you! @MATTFORDHAM / WWW.WINTR.US