050: SLDS And Styling Hooks With Brandon Ferrua

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brandon Ferrua is a UX architect for the Design System team here at Salesforce. In this episode, we discuss the history of the Salesforce Lightning Design System. He teaches us what a design system really means. Brandon also reveals a cool new feature in the form of styling hooks. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’ve ever wanted a more detailed understanding of design systems, Brandon has been here since the bootstrap days and has a lot to teach us. Tune in to hear a great conversation with  lots of useful information.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The history of SLDS.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What makes a design system a design system.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Salesforce started getting organized with accessibility-friendly components.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What a design token is and how it works.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The core products and users they were specifically designing for Lightning Experience</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What styling hooks are and how they help the adoption problem.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What kind of freedom the new styling hook feature gives people.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The advantages the Trailhead design team will experience.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Links:</strong></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Brandon on Twitter:</strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/bferrua"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">@bferrua</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Salesforce UX Github:</strong> <a href= "https://github.com/salesforce-ux"><span s