Salesforce Lightning Design System

An overview about Salesforce new open source UX Framework known as Salesforce Lightning Design System. Its an Modern UI Framework, which can be used to design and develop enterprise level apps.

1. #StruckByLightning #JaipurDUG #LightningExperience Durgesh Dhoot A Salesforce Developer & Mobile Architect * Beta Release 0.8.0 @ddurgesh28 @ddurgesh28 Create the world’s best enterprise app experiences.

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3. So a new Lightning Experience is coming...

4. Let’s take a Sneak Peek Pre Release Winter 16 Org

5. But what about our Custom Implementations ???

6. Salesforce provided, A New CSS based Design Framework * Beta Release 0.8.0

7. Diff. b/w VF & SLDS Page Centric Server-side Rendering Tried & True Model Limited Interactivity High Latency App Centric Client-side Rendering Complex Highly Interactive Low Latency

8. VF inside SLDS Visualforce inside iframe Sidebar & Header are always false (hidden) Start considering “sforce.one”

9. Features: Easy to use: Supporting Components Library Consistent with core Salesforce feature Extensive Documentation Full Responsive CSS Framework

10. Features: Easy to use Design with Expertise Detailed Guidelines Interactive Design Patterns Best Practices guides

11. Features: Easy to use Design with Expertise Platform Agnostic Can easily be used with any other framework Can be Used at any of the platforms including Salesforce, Lightning & Heroku.

12. Features: Easy to use Design with Expertise Platform Agnostic Trustworthy & Growing Designed by Salesforce itself Growing rapidly to add more components.

13. Where To Use ? Visualforce Lightning Components Heroku, Mobile or Any Other Platform

14. Similar to... Twitter Bootstrap Android’s Material Design

15. Design Guidelines Component Toolkit Design Tokens What it has ?

16. Design Guidelines Layout- based on use-cases & content Loading Indicators- use spinners & stencils for reassurance Navigation Patterns- guidance for navigation based on requirement Motions- guidance for effective motion, effects & animations.

17. SLDS CSS Pattern B lock : E lement (__) M odifier (--) Modifier

18. Component Toolkit Collection of various components, to help in designing consistent, responsive and good looking UI design. Some of important components among them are: Grid System Page Header Activity Timeline Datatables Form & Elements Modals Lookups & many more...

19. Design tokens are the visual design atoms of the design system, helps to achieve a scalable and consistent visual system for UI development. Some of this tokens are: Color- Background, Text, Border Font- Font, Size, Line Height Z Index Size and many more... Design Tokens

20. Demo Visualforce Pages Lightning Components

21. FAQs Is any JavaScript included as part of the framework? - No its an Pure CSS Framework What CSS syntax does SLDS use? - It uses BEM CSS Syntax Pattern for naming all classes Do we need to use (and compile) SASS to use SLDS? - SASS or any preprocessor can be used to preprocess Design Tokens, but if you are only using predefined component you don’t have to worry about them. Does Lightning Experience replace Visualforce? - LX & SLDS are provided to be integrated inside Visualforce, so now you can consider that you have 2 ways to design your app either in older fashion with new framework inside Visualforce, or a completely new Platform Lightning Should we start building in Lightning or Visualforce? - It may varies based on your requirement. Will Lightning Experience support Visualforce's apex tags? - So far VF tags are not going to show in new UI but will use older class CSS while rendering How to identify whether we are on Classic View Or Lightning Experience - You can use sforce.one to identify whether you are in a Classic View or inside SF1 or LX

22. Reference https://www.lightningdesignsystem.com/ Developer Trail - Lightning Experience ForceDotComLabs - sldsx

23. Trailhead: Developer Trail - Lightning Experience Start learning today.

24. Q/A