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
