It could be your page is trying to do too many things at the same time. In this situation, I tend to make the case for a new page (sub-page, community, whichever fits your application) so that the task-at-hand can take up more real estate without having to fight for space with superfluous portlets.
Alternatively, if your application supports it, minimize the non-critical elements in the page, and allow the user to expand them if needed. That's not terribly common or easy to do, but if it's a custom application, perhaps you have the means to do so. Bryan Minihan -----Original Message----- From: discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Sohel Kapasi Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 4:16 AM To: disc...@ixda.org Subject: [IxDA Discuss] How would you prefer to keep the screen elements which are rarely useful in the modules/applications/screens? Most of the time while working with heavy data intensive application I have encountered that there is 20 to 30% of the modules/webparts/portlates/functionality are rarely useful for the end-users in most of the applications for example elements like News, Article, Record Summery, Archive Records, User Summery, Report Summery, etc.. They are defiantly useful for the user to make some business decision while accessing that module or page but they still occupying area on screens and therefore designer end-up compromising business critical data/fields on the screen for the information which is rarely or occasionally useful for end-users. I have my way to handle this situation but I want to understand how are you handling this, let me evaluate your methods with mine and I am sure I will improve a lot. Thank you very much for your suggestions well in advance. sohelkap...@gmail.com ________________________________________________________________ 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 ________________________________________________________________ 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
