đź‘‹ Introduction

Welcome to Soul, a design system for Emplifi's products and digital experiences. When you start designing or developing a project, it's the place to go.

Our design system is not open source, but we’re making it public to raise awareness, foster collaboration, drive higher-quality content, and champion transparency. Our system comprises four key sections: Foundations, Components, Patterns, and the Product content style guide.

The Foundations establish our core design principles—covering colors, typography, spacing, icons, elevations, and illustrations—that are essential building blocks for every project.

The Components section offers ready-to-use elements that ensure consistency and efficiency across our interfaces.

Patterns provide tested, reusable solutions that combine these elements to address common user needs and workflows.

Our Product content style guide sets standards for in-product copy, ensuring that every text is clear, concise, and aligned with our value-focused communication. By sharing these guidelines, we invite valuable feedback and encourage a collective sense of ownership that enhances the overall user experience.


Foundations

Foundations are the essential building blocks that help you kickstart your projects. This section outlines practical guidelines and assets—including colors, typography, spacing, icons, elevations, and illustrations—that ensure a consistent and cohesive visual language from day one.

Components

Components are the ready-to-use building blocks that bring your interfaces to life. This section offers a curated library of pre-designed elements—such as buttons, forms, data tables, or navigations—that are fully compliant with our style guidelines. Use these components to quickly assemble consistent, accessible, and efficient user interfaces, or explore specific categories to find the perfect fit for your project.

Avatar

The avatar serves as a visual element representing the user, profile, chatbot, or user group.

Avatar group

A group of avatars used to visually display a bunch of users or profiles.

Avatar info

If we need to include text information with the avatar, we can use a avatar info.

Badge

A badge is a label or indicator for communicating information in a visual way.

Breadcrumb

The breadcrumb helps users to orient where they are in the hierarchy.

Button

A button allows users to perform actions or to navigate to other pages.

Button group

Button groups offer quick access to actions that are related to each other.

Checkbox

Checkboxes offer the user clickable options for a related statement.

Checkbox button

Checkbox buttons offer users quick access to related actions.

Confirmation dropdown

Dropdown menus present a list of options from which the user can select one.

Dropdown menu

Popovers are an alternative to high-impact dialogs.

Link

Links are navigational elements used next to content or in-line with text.

Modal

Modals serve to focus the user’s attention on one task or piece of information.

Number input

Allows users to enter a numeric value and change this value with two controls.

Progress bar

The visual element providing information about the status or collecting process.

Radio button

Radio buttons allow users to select a single option from mutually exclusive choices.

Select

Select is used to choose one or more options from a list.

Selectable item

The base for the lists in the selects or modals representing selectable parts.

Side panel

A side panel is an overlay used to focus the user’s attention on multiple tasks.

Snackbar

Snackbars are messages that appear briefly to describe app processes.

Tab

Tabs are used to organize content by allowing the user to switch views.

Table

Tables use columns and rows to display actionable data within the UI.

Text input

Text input allows the user to interact with and input content and data.

Toggle

Used to switch between two opposing states in the UI, usually on/off.

Tooltip

Tooltips are text containers offering extra information about a given area of the UI.

 

Patterns

Patterns are standard and reusable solutions that combine multiple components and templates to address common user challenges. They encapsulate best practices and proven workflows, guiding you in creating consistent, intuitive experiences that efficiently meet user goals.

Product content style guide

Product Content Style Guide sets the standards for every piece of in-product copy on the Emplifi Platform. It provides clear, actionable guidelines to craft messages that are easy-to-read, concise, and modern—ensuring users navigate the platform effortlessly and complete their tasks efficiently. Our value-focused, consistent tone empowers users by making every instruction and piece of information both engaging and intuitive.

Grammar

Writing mechanisms