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Stef. Sullivan Rewis on Building an Enterprise CSS Framework for Salesforce

September 23, 2015

Some very interesting insights on what goes into building a huge CSS Framework for an Enterprise Solution like Salesforce.

At Salesforce UX, we are guided by four design principles. In order of importance, they are — clarity, efficiency, consistency, and beauty . These principles assisted us in prioritizing competing goals and helped us make tough calls.

I’d like to share some of the decisions we made while architecting the framework. Some of these choices may be unexpected. And there have been times when our ideas have morphed while building, as we discovered yet another platform or situation we needed to solve for.

Worth a read!

Medium – Building an Enterprise CSS Framework

CodeMyUI

July 20, 2015

Handpicked code snippets you can use in your web projects. Find web design inspiration with code samples.

A nice collection of Tutorials and Code Snippets from all around the web.

CodeMyUI.com

“Quantity Queries” in Sass

March 19, 2015

As i wrote before i really liked the concept of “Quantity Queries” in CSS to style elements based on their quantity. It was only a matter of time until someone took the idea to Sass.

Sitepoint – Using Sass for “Quantity Queries”

CSS Wizardry – Can CSS be too modular

March 9, 2015

Harry Roberts from CSS Wizardry answers a question he got about Atomic CSS and the proper amount of abstraction in your CSS.

That is to say, having padding: 6px; appear in your CSS 50 times is no big deal. You will feel no performance impact. Gzip will crunch the bejeezus out of it.

However, manually typing out padding: 6px; 50 times in your Sass (or LESS, or whatever) is a problem.

CSS Wizardry – Can CSS be too modular