DESIGN SYSTEM
IDS Adoption Options
There are many options for teams looking to adopt IDS, depending on their application and team. Teams can pursue any of these IDS adoption paths or they can proceed with a mixture of technologies based on their own current reality. Terrazzo—a new visual identity for Infor, expected to be available in 2025—will be supported in IDS-Foundations, IDS-Emergent, and IDS-Phoenix.
IDS-Legacy (jQuery Enterprise Library + Angular wrappers): The original IDS component set built using jQuery, HTML, and CSS, with the option of leveraging thin Angular wrappers for most of the component set. This is the IDS that most adopters are familiar with, as it has the widest current adoption. Generally available.
IDS-Phoenix (jQuery Enterprise + Angular wrappers): A refactored version of IDS-Legacy, including the Angular wrappers. It will use a combination of the jQuery-based library and an improved version of the Angular wrappers—modernizing the legacy infrastructure for ongoing maintenance for the foreseeable future. Expected to be available 2H 2025.
IDS-Emergent (Web Components): The new addition to IDS built using Web Components technology. It contains all the base components. Additional legacy variants are being added. Generally available.
IDS-Foundations: The styling library for IDS—previously called just the design system repo—that contains the fonts, tokens for generating CSS, visual asset libraries, and other supplementary design system information. This is the choice for teams that want to adopt the look and feel of IDS but can’t leverage the components themselves. Generally available.
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Design Tokens
Standalone design tokens are now available for teams who want to use IDS styles in their solutions but can’t use the IDS components. These design tokens represent foundational design language styles, like colors and font sizes, and are currently powering our recently released Web Components. Design tokens make it easier for designers and developers to apply the right values in the right scenarios. Going forward, they will be extended to more aspects of the component styles, including shape, shadow, and font family.
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UX Writing
User experience writing (UXW) is a foundation of the Infor Design System and consists of the user interface copy—microcopy—that standardizes and humanizes the way users relate to Infor products. It provides an engaging and consistent human voice that builds trust in effective and dependable interactions. It also works contextually with the visual aspects and componentry of a UI, as well as the interactional guidance needed to achieve the goals of an application or system. UXW provides standardization and enablement guidelines, greater ease of use for sophisticated applications, and better microcopy and UX by iterating on feedback.
Email us with any questions about UXW standards and guidance for the design system.