GUIDELINES
Standard Role-Based Workspaces (RBWS)
Content design guidelines for standard RBWS are available for product management teams to use for the 2025.04 Feature Release and beyond. These guidelines provide an overview of the design process and examples from past releases, which include defining the user persona, mapping the content structure, and determining specific interactions for each widget.
PM teams can also watch our recent UX Knowledge Share session to learn more about how to create a standard RBWS, common widgets used in past RBWS, and best practices.
- How to Create Standard Role-Based Workspaces
- Content Structure Template
- UX Knowledge Share (recording and PDF)
Email us with questions or feedback.
2024.10 FEATURE RELEASE
Infor OS Portal: Workspaces Backgrounds
A new feature, available in the 2024.10 Feature Release for OS Portal, will allow users to set a default background for their Workspace by selecting either a custom color or an image from a predefined set. Administrators will also be able to upload a brand image, which will place a logo at the top of the Workspace.
Read this one-page summary to learn more about how this UX enhancement provides personalization value for end users and branding value for customers.
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.
Learn more about the benefits and risks for each adoption path. Email us with questions or feedback.
UX WRITING
Dates and Times
A comprehensive update to the UX writing (UXW) guidelines for dates and times is now available. It includes quickstart recommendations to help you make Infor user interfaces more effective and powerful.
UXW optimizes UI copy design and works with Infor Design’s interactive components and product use cases to build successful and excellent user experiences. Check out the rest of the UXW style guide to learn more about UXW best practices and standards. If there’s something you can’t find or think should be included, email us.
COMPONENTS
Updated Guidelines
We’re publishing new guidelines for components, utilities, patterns, and charts, which include:
- When to use: The common types of tasks or interactions that it helps users achieve
- When to use something else: Alternatives to consider
- Usability guidance: Best practices for how to use it, with considerations to help you design and implement it in a way that creates an intuitive, accessible, and effective experience
- UX writing: Standards for capitalization, punctuation, and grammar
- Accessibility: Guidance to help ensure that it remains accessible through design and implementation
Updates are ongoing, so check out what’s now available—and what’s currently in progress—on the overview page.