023: Web Component Development with David Norris

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /> <br /></span></p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">David’s conceptualization of component development </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Going from the ideation phase into the actual design phase</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">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.”</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">By designing on paper first, you can iterate much faster.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some of the tools David found useful during the design and mock-up phases</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">His experience incorporating a third-party library into a web component</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The testing and replication process</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Resources:</strong></p> <p><a href="http://twitter.com/davenorris"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">David on Twitter</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/davenorris/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">David on LinkedIn</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://github.com/deejay-hub"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">David on Github</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@dave_norris"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">David