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Transcript
Style-Guide Driven UI Design with Sass Jina Bolton // Product
Designer // Do CSS Dev Conf // 2012
None
A fractured process makes for a fractured user experience.” ”
—Nate Fortin
Create pages
Create pages
Create systems
It used to be that designers made an object and
walked away. Today the emphasis must shift to designing the entire life cycle.” ” —Paul Saffo
Writing an Interface Style Guide | A List Apart Articles
Style Guide Elements
Brand Guidelines Logos Tone & Voice Copywriting Standards Typography Color
Palettes
Layout Grids Spacing Image & Media Sizes
Development Standards HTML, CSS, & JS Naming Conventions Directory Structures
Validation & QA Version Control
Design | Android Developers
Style | Design | Android Developers
Patterns | Design | Android Developers
Building Blocks | Design | Android Developers
Building Blocks | Design | Android Developers
Do Android Design Comp Library on Project Wiki on GitHub
Style Guide | Starbucks
Promo Layout A | Style Guide | Starbucks
Toggled Backgrounds | Style Guide | Starbucks
Toggled Baseline | Style Guide | Starbucks
Toggled Boxes | Style Guide | Starbucks
Toggled Grid | Style Guide | Starbucks
All of the Toggles! | Style Guide | Starbucks
Style Tiles
Style Tile for The Washington Examiner Site 2012 Campaign Site
CSS Preprocessors + Style Guides = Super Rad
Keep documentation current & useful
Easier maintainability
DRY Development
Patterns & Proportions
Stylus
sass-lang.com
compass-style.org
Sass Benefits
Nesting
ul.items a { ... } ul.items:hover { ... } .ie-6
ul.items a { ... } Output: SCSS: ul.items a { ... &:hover { ... } .ie-6 & { ... } }
ul.items { ... } @media print { ul.items { ...
} } Output: SCSS: ul.items a { ... @media print { ... } }
.sidebar { border: 1px solid #eee; border-top-color: #fff; border-left: 0;
} Output: SCSS: .sidebar { border: 1px solid #eee { top-color: #fff; left: 0; } }
Variables
body { color: #444; } footer { background: #444; }
Output: SCSS: $text: #444; $bg: $text; body { color: $text; } footer { background: $bg; }
Mixins & Extend
.module { padding: 1em; } .info { padding: 2em }
Output: SCSS: @mixin spacing($s: 1em) { padding: $s; } .module { @include spacing; } .info { @include spacing(2em); }
.message, .error { ... } .message.alert, .error.alert { ... }
.error { ... } Output: SCSS: .message { ... &.alert { ... } } .error { ... @extend .message; }
Placeholder Selectors
.module, .sidebar { color: #444; } .sidebar, .main { width:
240px; } Output: SCSS: .module { color: #444; } %grid-1 { width: 240px; } .sidebar { @extend .module; @extend %grid-1; } .main { @extend %grid-1; }
Color Functions
$text: #444 color: lighten($text, 5%); color: darken($text, 5%); color: saturate($text,
5%); color: adjust-hue($text, 180); color: grayscale($text); color: mix($text, #fff);
sassme.arc90.com/
Commenting Options
/* Multiline comment; appears in output */ Output: SCSS: /*
Multiline comment; appears in output */ // Singleline comment; // Hidden from output
Operations
body { font-size: 24px; } Output: SCSS: $size: 12px; body
{ font-size: $size * 2; }
Functions
.i-red { background: url(red.png); } .i-blue { background: url(blue.png); }
Output: SCSS: @each $c in red, blue { .i-#{$c} { background: url(#{$c}.png); } }
.i-red { color: red; } .i-blue { color: blue; }
Output: SCSS: @mixin i($color) { @if $color == red { color: red; } @else { color: blue; } } .i-red { @include i(red); } .i-blue { @include i; }
Error Reporting
First Variables. Then Mixins. Then @extend. Then more advanced stuff!
Start with baby steps
Stay organized
Clarity is beautiful.
Clarity > Brevity
If you’re nesting more than 3 levels deep, you’re probably
doing something wrong.
File Organization images/ content/ layout/ javascripts/ vendor/ stylesheets/ vendor/
Front-end Maintainability with Sass and Style Guides | Engine Yard
Blog
Engine Yard App Cloud, Early 2011
Engine Yard App Cloud, Early 2011
jacobrask.github.com/styledocco/
jacobrask.github.com/styledocco/styledocco/examples/bootstrap/docs/buttons.html
My Typical Sass Organization
// ---------------------------------- // 01. VENDOR FRAMEWORKS @import "compass"; @import "susy";
// ------------------------------------ // 02. RESET * { @include box-sizing(border-box); }
@import "vendor/normalize";
// --------------------------------------------------------- // 03. DEPENDENCIES // Variables/mixins/placeholders/etc // These don’t
emit CSS on their own // until they are used. @import "dependencies/measurements"; @import "dependencies/typography"; @import "dependencies/color"; @import "dependencies/images"; @import "dependencies/themes";
// --------------------------------------------------------- // 04. FOUNDATION // Plain semantic HTML //
No classes/IDs are introduced yet. @import "foundation/page"; @import "foundation/links"; @import "foundation/headings"; @import "foundation/text"; @import "foundation/lists"; @import "foundation/forms";
// ---------------------------------- // 05. COMPONENTS // Reusable modules, components, etc.
@import "components/buttons"; @import "components/messaging"; @import "components/dropdowns";
// ---------------------------------- // 06. LAYOUT @import "layout/grid"; @import "layout/banner"; @import
"layout/navigation"; @import "layout/complementary"; @import "layout/contentinfo";
// ---------------------------------- // 07. TOOLS @import "tools/helpers"; @import "tools/print";
Do
Caption and/or URL
http://codepen.io/jina/pen/iosjp
do.com’s Rainbow Color Stripe
Do Style Guide
Do Style Guide
Do Style Guide
What else?
compass.handlino.com
mhs.github.com/scout-app
livereload.com
codekit.com
susy.oddbird.net
stuffandnonsense.co.uk/projects/320andup
smacss.com
blesscss.com
Just give it a try!
sass-lang.com
Team Sass Design FTW!
Sass Logo Inspiration
None
None
Sass Brand Guidelines
Sass Style Tile
Current Design Progress. Stay tuned!
@TeamSassDesign
#teamSass
Be regular and orderly in your life so that you
may be violent and original in your work.” ” —Gustave Flaubert
sushiandrobots.com
artinmycoffee.com
speakerdeck.com/u/jina
@jina Thank You!