Product Description

Learn proven design patterns to improved navigation and task usability of portals and enterprise mashups.
What You will Learn
Successful Portals are now using advanced UI designs, RSS feeds, Mash-ups and highly interactive collaboration. Users expect their new portals solutions to work like Google with ease of use, excellent search and integrated collaboration. Despite this, many portal efforts get mired in the politics of the company while everyone else is providing you their opinion on the user interface. Learn techniques on how to make efficient task-based portal designs that allow increased user productivity while meeting the needs of the business. Learn and from the experts who have been helping companies develop world-class solutions for over a decade. We’ll teach you our techniques for success and provide real-world case study examples of success in the field.
We will show you specific best practices as they relate to global navigation, search, and task integration.
Attendees will learn how to:
  • Learn how portals have evolved to leverage Web 2.0 technologies like mashups, tag clouds and RSS feeds
  • Develop essential UI models to validate UI designs
  • Learn how to create efficient UI designs to keep users productive
  • Apply specific layout and design techniques to engage users and improve navigation
Attendees will be provided with a complete set of slides for review following the Webinar presentation.
Benefits to Your Company

 

  • Reduce risk by creating usable portals
  • Learn techniques for leveraging Web 2.0 technologies
  • Discover best practices for Portal layout and design
Who Should Attend
  • Project Managers who are responsible for establishing or managing software projects
  • Project Leaders who need to use a proven process to build effective portals
  • UI Designers who need to know how and when to to ensure usable designs
  • Developers who are responsible for implementing portals and mashups
  • Business Analysts who need to translate business requirements into successful software designs
  • End Users who need to understand effective portal design techniques.
This class is designed for corporate and commercial developers and analysts that are, or plan to be, involved in software development projects. Anyone concerned with developing highly successful software, including individuals that will gather user requirements or end-users themselves will also benefit from attending. Attendees should have a basic understanding of requirements gathering and software design techniques.