Discussion Archive: June 2010

Any experience with Portlets interaction design?

Hi guys,
Im working on a company thas is redesigning the hole corporate intranet concept and all the app.
The change is very big and the definition is to use portlets, we are thinking about using Gatein. As you know  this involves the  way the user interact with the interface.
Can anybody recommend me any paper/ book/ case study about user interaction with portlets? Any usability guideline wil be wellcome :)

Thanks,
Preismita

Audience Segmentation Navigation

I know it is a common practice for B2B sites to structure the navigation by audience; however, I think structuring the navigation based on tasks rather than audience type could be a better solution. Would analyzing the tasks for each audience type naturally present a common IA that all audience types could understand? For example, each audience type needs to know the benefits of a product (of course, the benefits for the product differs for each audience type).

The relationship between designers and material

I posted this to my blog earlier today, but I thought it would be worth contributing here as well.  Lots to discuss around the idea of material in interaction design.  

Here's the post originally seen at http://blog.emenel.ca/post/749792140/the-designers-relationship-with-materials:

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Portfolios for Design Managers

What's the protocol for presenting portfolios for design managers who didn't have significant previous experience as an individual contributor?

I came to IxD via engineering and program management, taking over our product design group after having focused on the "words" end of IxD involving user stories, scenarios and other requirements analysis for several years (after many years in engineering roles). As such, I don't have a significant body of personal design product to show.