Re: [IxDA Discuss] Portal Best Practices
Hi, what kind of portal are you building? Corporate intranet or extranet (partners site)? I have been involved with the interaction and user interface design for both. Here are general rules to follow: 1. Ask about the platform. Is it out of the box (Sharepoint, Websphere Portal)? Or is it custom from the ground up? There are implications with flexibility for functionality, features and design (the later being the most flexible). 2. Be diligent with user research. Ask your users about expectations and skill level. If you design a portal that is hard to update for content administrators (stale content) and doesn't engage user with either meaningful content or productive tools people won't use it. 3. Make sure the portal design also includes support for 508b compliance, a help section and a feedback mechanism. Nice to have: a community like functionality, builds involvement. Cheers I hope this helps, Peter . Peter Chung Senior User Experience Designer Customer Experience Group, CNET.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=29565 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
[IxDA Discuss] Portal Best Practices
Does anyone have any good insights to share on Portal Development and Best Practices? Many Thanks Catríona __ Catríona Lohan-Conway User Experience Architect 917 405 5127 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Portal Best Practices
Joe Lamantia contributed a very interesting paper on the subject at the IA Summit this year. You can see his slideshow here: http://www.slideshare.net/moJoe/effective-ia-portals-2-slideshare-short On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Catriona Lohan-Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any good insights to share on Portal Development and Best Practices? Tim Ostler London 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
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Portal Best Practices
As well, Joe has a nice series of articles on BA: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/person/88-joelamantia http://www.boxesandarrows.com/person/88-joelamantia - Andrew : Andrew Schechterman, Ph.D. UX Architect, Medical Psychologist LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewschechterman E-mail: aschechterman at gmail dot com Phone: 1-303-886-2440 : On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Tim Ostler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe Lamantia contributed a very interesting paper on the subject at the IA Summit this year. You can see his slideshow here: http://www.slideshare.net/moJoe/effective-ia-portals-2-slideshare-short On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Catriona Lohan-Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any good insights to share on Portal Development and Best Practices? Tim Ostler London 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 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
