Differentiating Salesforce Classic and Lightning
Over the years, Salesforce has had a few UI makeovers to keep up with the latest trends in usability and design. The latest, and by far the biggest, UI change Salesforce has carried out is the introduction of Salesforce Lightning in 2015. This was a fundamental change to the look and feel that Salesforce users were used to and brought with it many new features that are only available on Lightning. Some of these features include the following:
- A modern UI
- The Lightning Component framework, which allows developers to build responsive applications for any device with less effort
Many organizations that have used Salesforce for a long time either plan to migrate, or have already migrated, to Lightning. When Lightning was released, the older Salesforce UI was renamed Salesforce Classic to differentiate between the two. The following screenshots show the exact same page in Salesforce Classic and Salesforce Lightning...