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Re: Salesforce Lightning Design System

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astrowilliam wrote: post #4
herge wrote: post #2

Whenever I see corporate-initiated projects like this, I wonder where it will be in 5 years. Open-Source projects that have gained popularity more 'organically' like bootstrap (despite the twitter backing!) seem to be a lot more resilient and more likely to be updated and upgraded as time goes on. Do you really want your SaaS app to look like it was designed in 2015 forever?

I am skeptical that this will be kept up to date when a new manager thinks it's "good enough" and takes the wind out of the sails. Or if someone gets laid off that's in charge of the project. If they were to open source this project it would continue to live on even if the original contributors are no longer involved. Open Source always wins in cases like this.

The Lightning Design System is open source. BSD 2-clause.

Re: Salesforce Lightning Design System

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baxter001 wrote: post #15

We ended up asking a third party to theme and provide a grammar over bootstrap for our SFDC front end work, I'm not seeing any great benefit over that (it even similarly requires a special wrapper element to isolate it from the standard SFDC styling.) Really I'd have preferred that they had contributed a theme for bs3/4 rather than this.

It's not just a theme. It's not just a kit for designing apps that look like SFDC. It's the same design language as the new SFDC interface and it's the basis for that codebase.

Re: Salesforce Lightning Design System

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debaserab2 wrote: post #12

Wow, this is the first semblance of UX I've ever seen related to SalesForce. The actual product itself, while having a consistent design, is an absolute navigational and hierarchical nightmare for any use case I've had to use it for.

It's definitely a GIANT leap forward for SFDC. I don't know the history of their UX team, but I don't believe there really was an earnest one until the "SFDC Style Guide" that the Salesforce1 mobile app was built with came out.

The browser interface up until this year has predated anything that the Salesforce UX team has created, so it's quite possibly finally signaling that @benioff is committing to even HAVING a UX team.

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