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Introduction to the building blocks

Joe Lamantia continues his series on the building blocks methodology for designing portals. To quote:

Part 1 of this series "The Challenge of Dashboards and Portals" discussed the difficulties of creating effective information architectures for portals, dashboards, and tile-based information environments using only flat portlets, and introduced the idea of a system of standardized building blocks that can effectively support growth in content, functionality, and users over time. In enterprise and other large scale social settings, using standardized components allows for the creation of a library of tiles that can be shared across communities of users.

Part two now outlines the design principles underlying the building block system, and the simple guidelines for combining blocks together to create any type of tile-based environment.

Posted by jamesr on July 25, 2007 12:59 PM
Categories: Content management, Information architecture, Usability & user-centered design