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SPS Brussels 2016 - From design to a modern style guide branding strategies for share point and add-ins - spsbe
1. SharePoint Saturday Belgium 2016 • October 15 • Brussels Track: MIX | Level: 200
From Design to a modern Style
Guide - Branding Strategies for
SharePoint and Add-ins
Stefan Bauer – N8D - MVP
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Why Branding?
Corporate magazines
Word Templates
Excel Templates
Business applications
Internal newsletter
Vcards
Magazines for
employees
Cooperate Coffee Mug
...
Background-image: http://logoholik.com/portfolio/abovus/
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Why Branding? – Soft Facts
Internal brand awareness
Official information by the company
Increase identification with the company
Employees become brand ambassadors
Not only to make SharePoint look not look like SharePoint
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Potential problems with Frameworks
• How to add custom CSS?
• Documentation of custom CSS?
• New version of framework?
• What do I need from the framework?
• Subscribe to someone else structure
• Office UI Fabric - SuiteCSS
• What if framework structure fundamentally changes?
• LESS SASS
• Static HTML Handlebarsjs
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We’re not designing pages. We’re designing
systems of components.
– Stephan Hay
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Responsive deliverables should look a lot like
fully-functioning Twitter Bootstrap-style systems
custom tailored for your clients needs.
– Dave Rupert
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Style Guide – The benefits
• State and breakpoint changes
• Useful for future designers, devs & others
• Design and Code consistency and
maintainability
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The Benefits Of Maintaining
•Easier to test
•Improves workflow
•Shared vocabulary
•Useful reference
66. Style Guide Benefits
• For designer / developers / customer / project owners
• No extra effort on documenting styles
• Build HTML and Design first
• Useful for future development
• See the side effects of CSS changes easier
• Use same styles for SharePoint and Add-ins