Paul E., I'm very interested in where you're going with this concept. I have been heavily involved in designing for portal over the last 9 months and have found the technology to be too tightly coupled to the interface. A very simple implementation can be accomplished out of the box with most portal software, but anything beyond the most basic configuration has been extremely problematic.
I surmise this is a larger issue in enterprise IT departments where UX and IxD is more rare. As our practice becomes more mature within the enterprise, it is no surprise that we are finding that bad design abounds. To Paul B.'s point, I'm not sure that UX guidelines for a portal differ from UX guidelines across the board. A clear way to organize and find documents is an applicable design pattern for portals and non-portals. Portal technology is built on the premise that the system supports personalization by the user (iGoogle). I would be more interested in hearing about design guidelines for personalization of a portal, not necessarily best design practices, which are universal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=47479 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
