By SalesforceNerd and Johann Furmann
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Random Easter Eggs 🐣
- Random Page Layouts
- Change order of picklists
- Insert a random non-work task
- Slow Page loading speed
Introduction
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User /ˈjuː.zɚ/
noun [ C ]
Formal: someone who uses a product, machine, or service
Informal: someone who finds a way of misusing your app, product or service
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Users, love them or hate them, are the reason we do what we do. In the end, our well-designed, fully-featured, functional, fast, fancy app isn’t worth a farthing if nobody uses it. Worse – it’s probably worth even less if people hate it or accidentally misuse it. They keep us on our toes and give us feedback that we need but not what we really want.
In this post, we’ll get creative. We came up with scenarios to troll our dear users for fun and games. Word of warning: Don’t try this at home, you may end up in a tight spot.
Onwards and trollwards…
Random Easter Eggs 🐣
What: Pepper the UI with random easter eggs for users to find but they are not easily reproducible
How: Throw confetti for every x page load, where x is a random number
Admin/Dev: Both
Effort: Medium
Deviousness: High
Random Page Layouts
What: Randomly changing page layouts
How: Dynamic forms with a random visibility setting
Admin/Dev: Admin
Effort: Low
Deviousness: High
Change order of picklists
What: Change the order multiple times a day of often used picklists (e.g. Salutation)
How: Manually / CI Script
Admin/Dev: Admin (Manual) / Dev
Deviousness: Medium
Insert a random non-work task
What: Insert a weekly random non-work task and assign it to your user
How: Surprise your user with a task like “Buy milk!”, “Get flowers for the dog” (plus points if they own)
Admin/Dev: Admin (Flow) / Dev (Trigger)
Deviousness: Medium
Slow Page loading speed
What: Slow down page loading speed over the course of a day. Have it happen only on random days far between.
How: Add a small LWC which artificially slows down Page loading. Make it random or always before lunchtime.
Admin/Dev: Dev
Deviousness: High
Now, don’t forget to heed our warning about not trying this at home( or at work ). Unless it’ll bring a smile on their face, then you have our permission to try some or all of the above. And if YOU, dear reader, have any more trolltastic suggestions, don’t hesitate to add them to the comments. Adios.
Fabulous Confetti
If you like confetti in your Org, get Fabulous Confetti from the AppExchange.