Lightning Experience: A New, Modern, Intelligent User Experience

It’s here ... the new Salesforce user experience! Lightning Experience is a completely reimagined interface. Even better, it’s built on our UI platform, so the experience can grow and evolve with your needs. Learn about the benefits of this intuitive, efficient interface. Then decide when it’s time to make the switch—the power is in your hands. (Lightning Experience is available within 24 hours after the Winter ’16 release.)

Available in: Group, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions

What Makes Lightning Experience So Special
Welcome to Lightning Experience, the new, fast, beautiful user experience from Salesforce. With a sales-centric mindset, our initial release focuses on reinventing the desktop environment to better support your sales process. The result is an intuitive, intelligent interface that helps sales reps work more naturally and close more deals faster. Let’s take a peek at some of the key features of the new interface, so you can decide if Lightning Experience is right for some or all of your users.
Lightning Experience Features in This Release
Here’s the complete list of the powerful features and enhancements that make Lightning Experience the go-to interface for selling smarter and faster. Use this list to quickly access the details about each feature.
Is Lightning Experience Right for Your Salesforce Org?
So you’re intrigued and excited about Lightning Experience! The new interface clearly offers numerous benefits for sales teams. But Salesforce is a deep well and we can’t rebuild everything at once. This initial release doesn’t have complete parity with Salesforce Classic, the full-featured Salesforce predecessor. Let’s look at some use cases and see how Lightning Experience compares to Salesforce Classic to help you decide if now is the right time to switch.
Transition to Lightning Experience: Let’s Do This!
Great! You’ve decided you’re ready to switch to Lightning Experience. First, we recommend that you develop a strategy to guide your rollout. Then, when the time is right, here’s how to enable the new user interface.
Find Your Way Around Lightning Experience
Feeling a little discombobulated by all the Lightning Experience newness? Perfectly understandable. Diving in to a redesigned app can be disorienting—especially when you’re able to work in the original interface with your eyes closed. To hone your Lightning Experience chops, let’s look at where some of the most common Salesforce features landed in the new interface.
Lightning Experience Considerations
This release of Lightning Experience doesn’t include everything that’s available in Salesforce Classic. Review these topics to see if any functionality that’s critical to your business is limited or unavailable in this release. This information can also help you train users about what to expect when you do switch to Lightning Experience.