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September 2024

The latest UX updates, including 9 new role-based Workspaces in the 2024.10 Feature Release, design system operations, and UX research resources.

2024.10 FEATURE RELEASE

Role-Based Workspaces

The 2024.10 Feature Release is expected to include 9 new role-based Workspaces for Infor Industry CloudSuites, including Healthcare, Automotive, and Aerospace & Defense. One-page summaries, including user value and highlights of net-new and enhanced widgets for each Workspace, are now available.  


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.   


ADOPTION

Design Tokens

Design tokens are a systematized way to apply and manage design elements—such as color, typography, and spacing—across products. Here’s how application teams can adopt them: 

  1. IDS-Emergent: Design tokens are already integrated into the Web Components. This is the best way for teams to leverage the latest IDS styles.
  2. Integration into local styles: Teams can create a basic mapping script to maintain the link between the tokens and their applications.
  3. IDS-Phoenix: Design tokens will be integrated into this refactored version of IDS-Legacy, which will modernize the original IDS component set. (Expected to be available 2H 2025.)

Learn more in this recent presentation: Benefits for adopters, UX consistency, and our plans for enhancements—including token values for Terrazzo, a new visual identity for Infor, expected to be available in 2025. 


PROCESS

Design System Operations

The design system has long resided in GitHub, where developers from Infor and the broader Infor partner community provide feedback, suggestions, and identify bugs. Now that Infor has recently completed its general transition to the new Jira, the design system development team will be joining everyone else there. We’ll be winding down our GitHub operations, moving active issues to Jira, and providing new ticket numbers for existing bugs and requests currently in Jira. 
  
If you have an open bug or enhancement request currently in GitHub, keep an eye out for an update to that ticket confirming it’s been successfully moved over, as well as a ticket ID for the new request in Jira. 

We’ll also announce this in the Infor Design System Microsoft Team so everyone is aware. Following this transition, any new bugs or enhancements for IDS can be submitted to us directly in Jira. 


RESOURCES

UX Research

UX research helps you better understand your users, and can be done by anyone working on the design of a product. Comprehensive UX research resources, best practices, and enablement are now available, including:  

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The Infor Design UX Insights team can provide advice and strategic recommendations to help product teams conduct their own user research and create user-centered experiences. Check out our frequently asked questions or email us with any questions or feedback.