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
resolution for
positioning is 4 pixels.(See attached file: Swiss Style.png)
Jon Karpoff
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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 mind.
Jon Karpoff
One ethical consideration I run into often is a client wanting the
marketing email option defaulted to opt-in. Typically these options are
buried at the bottom of the page, below the fold and buried in fine print.
I always push for either opt-out as the default, or no default value at
all.
Jon
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