Ahah! Didn't know you were getting to be that specific =]
In the context of your point below, I think you're right in that there is a dearth of concrete guidance for sound interaction design across the suite of enterprise portals on the market. I believe (perhaps just my experience) that's because Sharepoint and Websphere are as divided as their respective parent companies, and their portals behave differently in very fundamental ways (include BEA Aqualogic here too). These portals SHOULDN'T be different. They just are, for the same reasons OS X is nothing like Windows, etc. I've worked lightly with Sharepoint and Websphere, but suppose it would be difficult to apply the same design rules to both environments, without a lot of caveats. I worked heavily in the enterprise portal space from 2003-2007 and met designers and ucd folks from many other companies, all of whom pretty much built their best practices from scratch, due to the lack of concrete guidance from any industry. We often sought guidance from other folks, only to find our own portal was way ahead of others of the same company size (we had a customized BEA Aqualogic portal, with our own Verity search). Wish I could help more, but when you finish your book, I'd love to read that chapter, to learn what you found =]. You might find you need a bigger chapter. Bryan Minihan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Eisen Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 2:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Need for Portal Design Guidelines? Thanks for the replies. Milan, I agree with the idea of looking more broadly into "intranets" - I actually think there's more stuff there. But strictly speaking, I'm targeting my thinking at portal technologies, as applied anywhere (e.g., employee-facing, vendor-facing, or customer-facing sites or applications). That is, how do you create great user experiences when starting with a SharePoint, WebSphere, etc. package that has a bunch of out-of-the-box features and limitations (and strapping on other supporting technologies). And where should we take those vendors to task to go back to the drawing board to enable better user experiences. (For example, administration comes to mind as something I've not once seen done right by the vendors.) Paul ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
