[IxDA Discuss] Intranets: Portal and Portlets or Dashboards

I've been tasked with developing the requirements and UX for an Intranet. The IT folks are talking about a portal model with the multitude of legacy applications fully integrated as portlets. I think that a personalized dashboards with single sign-on and links to apps is OK with info feeds to the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Are We The Puppet Masters? The Ethics of IxD.

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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability of Buttons versus Links for Navigation

I'd say use buttons if it something you WANT the User to do vs. links for things Users CAN do. Also there should be primary and secondary level buttons with only one primary button per functional area - the acion you REALLY want the User to chose... The "SUBMIT ORDER" comes to min

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Do grid systems also apply to application interfaces?

. In this case the finest resolution for positioning is 4 pixels.(See attached file: Swiss Style.png) Jon Karpoff Senior Partner Director User Experience Office: 1-212-237-5516 Cell: 1-914-419-4151 Email: jon.karp...@ogilvy.com We few, we happy few 636 11t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Whats in a name, my fellow Usability Experience Specialists?

Times are indeed changing, and in many practices the IA is now responsible for much more than taxonomies and functional wireframes. We see more cross discipline design work. There is also a growing trend towards using some form of Agile for development. The IA becomes responsible for representing