Today, I sit down and talk with David Norris, Solution Engineer for Salesforce, about web component development. We specifically discuss his experiences in building a complex and highly visible lightning web component in the form of a timeline that renders a visualization for related data like events, tasks, and opportunities. In this episode, we break down the component creation process, from conceptualization to release.

Show Highlights:

• David’s conceptualization of component development 
• Going from the ideation phase into the actual design phase
• David’s philosophy on user-centered design: “If you have access to people that do user-centered design for a living, you should use them.”
• By designing on paper first, you can iterate much faster.
• Some of the tools David found useful during the design and mock-up phases
• His experience incorporating a third-party library into a web component
• The testing and replication process

 

Resources:

David on Twitter

David on LinkedIn

David on Github

David on Medium

David on Trailblazer.me

Timeline Component Repo

Blog Post on Ideation

Blog Post on Design

Blog Post on Scaling

Blog Post on using D3.js

 

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