Inspect & Reflect Salesforce’s Lightning Design System

A big thank you to everyone who joined us for our Inspect & Reflect session on Salesforce’s Lightning Design System (https://infa.ai/events/salesforce_20250501)! Special thanks to our speakers—Luis Ouriach (https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisouriach/), Rachael Greene (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachaelgreene/), Charlie Weston (https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlieweston/), and Steve Dodier-Lazaro (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevedodierlazaro/)—for sharing their expertise.

What’s Inside
In this episode, we at Infa explore Salesforce’s Lightning Design System with industry experts. Key topics include:
→ Speaker backgrounds and design system journeys
→ Notification patterns and best practices
→ The role of design tokens in standardization
→ Styling hooks and Figma documentation insights
→ The future of design systems and AI’s impact

Join us as we inspect and reflect on design system strategies within Salesforce products to learn best practices and grow together.

Explore Salesforce Lightning Design System Components
Check out the community board we created for this event to see how Lightning Design System components are used within Salesforce products:
https://infa.ai/in/infa/salesforce

Session Resources
Details and registration for future sessions and FigJam link
https://infa.ai/events/salesforce_20250501

Don’t Miss Upcoming Inspect & Reflect Sessions
See all upcoming events and register here:
https://infa.ai/events

Chapters
00:00 Welcome and Speaker Introductions
01:22 Diving into Design Systems
02:41 Session Goals and Approach
03:47 Exploring Salesforce Lightning Design System
04:08 Salesforce Product Overview
04:49 Documentation Insights
06:00 Design Tokens and Styling Hooks
06:13 Figma Documentation Review
09:00 Storybook Documentation Review
15:27 Zero Height Documentation Review
17:59 Notification Patterns
20:15 Discussion on Notification Components
23:15 Understanding Notification Patterns
23:33 Accessible Notifications and Component Design
24:16 Documentation and User Guidance
25:20 Decision Trees and User Experience
26:06 Pattern Documentation in the Industry
26:56 Balancing Notifications with Visual Aids
28:20 Exploring Notification Components
28:59 Activation Patterns and User Onboarding
30:15 Error Handling and Informing Users
35:34 Styling Hooks and Design Tokens
44:15 Standardization and Customization in Design Tokens
49:29 Concluding Thoughts and Future Directions

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