This document provides an overview of Infor's transition from its SoHo 10x design system to its new SoHo Xi design system. Some key points: - SoHo 10x provided a unified visual style for legacy Infor products, while SoHo Xi is a modern, mobile-focused design system built with flexibility. - SoHo Xi is guided by strategic principles like user-centered design, designing for mobile, and ensuring accessibility. - It provides resources like design guidelines, code/documentation, and themes to help with adoption across Infor products. - The presentation discusses how SoHo Xi addresses the competitive landscape and supports an evolving user experience on all devices.

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L A U N C H
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Karen VanHouten
Product Manager, Principal IA
Joel McClure
Design Director
Tim McConechy
Senior Architect
Mallory Lindsley-Cicek
Senior Designer
Erik Hageman
Director of Creative
Jamie Norman
Senior Usability Analyst
The crew
Introducing

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From 10x to Xi
Strategic principles
The competitive environment
Resources
Adoption
Q&A
What’s on tap

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The value of UX in #ensw

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From 10x to Xi

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Visual cohesion Design certificationAccommodate
legacy patterns
SoHo 10x objectives
Simplify and unify the visual
design language across all
Infor products
Review and advise on
implementation of standards
Move the visual design of
products in the direction of
modern web UI, within the
constraints of existing UX
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Unify the experience
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SoHo 10x
Common Controls | Usage Guidelines | Consistent Nav Patterns
Unify the experience
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SoHo 10x
Common Controls | Usage Guidelines | Consistent Nav Patterns
The next step for Infor UX
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SoHo Xi
Process Patterns | Responsive Layouts | Accessible Controls
Touch-ready components | Modernized styling | Themes & Personalization
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Creating great UX is a moving target
and requires continuous effort
SoHo 10x
A unified visual style with
common components for
legacy systems
2013
SoHo Xi
A modern design system
rooted in user needs, built
with flexibility for the future
2015
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Strategic principles

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User-centered
design process
Ensure we’re solving the
right problems in the most
effective way
Design with
mobile in mind
Create responsive and
adaptive experiences across
devices and environments
Accessible
& inclusive
Ensure applications are usable
by all people of all abilities
Strategic principles
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User-centered design
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User research
Interviews, user testing,
usability testing, etc.
Customer site visits
Clarifying roles, observing
workflow, exploring the real
world environments in which
our users work
Conferences
& user groups
Sharing our strategy, listening
to concerns, fostering our
user-focused design
philosophy
Leverage contact with
end-users to drive change
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Without
user-centered design:
A single, identical
experience
for every user.
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With user-centered design:
Tailor-made experience
for specific roles and tasks.
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What is?
Assess the
current reality
What if?
Imagine what
could be
What wows?
Explore multiple
hypotheses
What works?
Test hypotheses
with users
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Meeting users in the field
First-hand observation
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Sales Hub Home
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Sales Hub Orders
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Sales Hub Checkout
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Hearing directly from the users
User interviews
Thoughts and reactions from
users to build user stories
User testing
Task-based tests and surveys to
validate hypotheses
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Mobile in mind
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Responsive
Consistency across devices,
well-considered break points,
and rules around what sizes
will work for specific content
and nav patterns
Touch-ready
Controls are optimized for
more seamless input on tablets
and phones
Changing contexts
Elevated user expectations
about how their software will
respond in any situation,
factoring in time of day,
geographical location, history,
and AI
Bridge constantly evolving needs and
expectations across all devices
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25. How mobile powers our thinking
Make it clear
Clarity forces
decisions around
hierarchy
Streamline
Eliminate
unnecessary
steps
Consistent
& beautiful
Mobile
experiences are
more controlled
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Accessible & inclusive
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Addressing many
kinds of needs
Universal and
regulated compliance
standards
Controls are validated to
conform to industry and
governmental standards
Theming and
personalization
Making applications usable
by as many people as possible
Users with various physical
& cognitive challenges can
perform their work effectively
Users gain greater control
to optimize the interface for
their needs
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Business drivers
Minimize legal risk /
eliminate employee
discrimination
Conform to the lawAvoid revenue loss Optimize risk and cost
Right thing to doProfessionalism / quality
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SECTION
508
A federal law that requires (among other
things) that all websites and applications
used by the federal government be
accessible to people with special needs.
(Other countries have similar accessibility
requirements).
USAInternational
WCAG
AA
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
(WCAG) are part of a series of web
accessibility guidelines published by the
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the
main international standards organization
for the internet.
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Addressing many kinds of needs
Visual Auditory Mobility
& dexterity
Cognitive
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Support for assistive technologies
To support accessibility, all important functionality must be available so that assistive
technology can understand and process the content, adapting it for the user.
These tools include:
Screen readers Braille terminals
Screen magnification
tools
Speech recognition
software
Keyboard overlays
Subtitled or sign-
language audio content
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Keyboard
support
All controls
use standard
keys
Screen reader
QA
Performing
QA for screen
readers
Third-party
validation
Verifying all
controls with
SSB Bart Group
Themes and
personalization
Theming
capability in the
controls
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Light theme
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Dark theme
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High contrast theme
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SoHo Xi base themes
Light Dark High contrast
User preference or optimized for environmental conditions
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Personalization
Customer-defined themes for branding or distinction between environments
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Competetive environment

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Oracle Alta
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SAP Fiori
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Tableau
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Workday
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Salesforce.com
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Resources

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soho.infor.com
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Code and
documentation
Code and documentation for
HTML/SASS/JS and component
design guidelines
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Design articles
User experience educational
resources including: articles,
case studies, videos, demos,
and best practices.
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Controls
HTML/SASS/JS
controls
optimized for
mobile, theming,
and accessibility
Icons
SVG and markup
icon library
Educational
resources
Articles, tutorials,
and case studies
Engagement
requests
Contact the SoHo
team to collaborate
with us
Forum
Discussion forum
(future)
< / >
soho.infor.com
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Adoption

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Augment
Add new functions on
top of existing application.
• Clear Work
• Home Pages
• Net New Models
Remodel
UX/UI effort
Taking the current
structure and transforming
it (using SoHo Xi Layout
patterns). UX/UI effort.
Build
UI + Process Patterns
Most disruptive.
Net new application or
complete reinvention of
a module or application.
Adoption paths
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Spring 2015 release
Guidelines
Code, documentation,
design, and usage
specifications
Layout templates
Page layouts
recommended off-the-shelf
and flexible templates
Controls
Accessible components with
support for touch input and
responsive designs
Themes and
personalization
Enhanced control based
on user or customer
preferences
Visual elements
SVG icon library, color palette, and
data visualization guidelines
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What’s
next?
• Additional features for components
• More page layout templates
• Sample application templates
• More themes
• More articles and case studies, and tutorials
• Results of user research and testing
• Integrations to product platforms

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As Infor’s internal creative agency we help design its software products and
envision the future of the Infor brand itself. Our mission: change the way
people work and think about work. To do that, we craft a new generation of
enterprise-level user experiences that disrupt preconceived notions of
business software. And along the way, we find ways to surprise and delight.