Salesforce Designers Changed User-Experience-Designer Questions

The Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS) reflects the patterns and components that underpin the Salesforce product. These patterns and components provide a unified language and consistent look and feel when designing apps and products within the Salesforce ecosystem. The Lightning Experience UI, which SLDS represents, was crafted using four core design principles. We encourage you to keep them in mind as you develop your applications. They are1:

• Clarity — Eliminate ambiguity. Enable people to see, understand, and act with confidence.
• Efficiency — Streamline and optimize workflows. Intelligently anticipate needs to help people work better, smarter, and faster.
• Consistency — Create familiarity and strengthen intuition by applying the same solution to the same problem.
• Beauty — Demonstrate respect for people’s time and attention through thoughtful and elegant craftsmanship. References: Introduction to the Salesforce Lightning Design System

A usability study is a method of evaluating how easy and intuitive a product or service is to use by observing real users performing specific tasks. It can help identify usability issues, user needs, and user satisfaction. One of the first steps when planning a usability study is to define the goals of the study, which are the questions that the UX designer wants to answer or the hypotheses that they want to test. The goals of the study will guide the selection of the participants, the tasks, the metrics, and the methods of the study. For example, if the goal of the study is to find out how users navigate the Experience Cloud site, the UX designer might choose to use a task-based usability test with eye-tracking and think-aloud techniques. References:

• : User Experience Designer Certification Prep: Module 4: Analyze User Research Data
• : User Experience Designer Certification Prep: Module 6: Validate User Interfaces

A cross-functional flowchart is a type of process map that shows the relationships between process steps and business teams. A cross-functional flowchart uses horizontal or vertical swimlanes to group the process steps by the roles or departments that are responsible for them. A cross-functional flowchart can help Cloud Kicks’ Discovery team to explain how different teams collaborate and communicate in the process, as well as identify any gaps, overlaps, or inefficiencies in the process. A cross-functional flowchart can also show the inputs, outputs, and decisions at each step, and the flow of information and materials across the swimlanes12. References:

• Cross-Functional Flowchart
• Create a Cross-Functional Flowchart

The SLDS utility that provides the most flexible system to meet the requirements of designing a responsive page is Grid. Grid is a utility that allows you to create a layout using a series of rows and columns that house your content. Grid uses a 12-column structure that can be adjusted based on breakpoints, which are predefined screen sizes that trigger a change in the layout. Grid also supports nesting, alignment, ordering, and offsetting of the columns. By using Grid, you can create a responsive page that can adapt to different screen resolutions and devices12 References: [Grid - Lightning Design System], [Mastering Salesforce Lightning Design System Grids and Lightning Layouts]