Portal Design Best Practices

At LDS, we are proponents of rapid and iterative portal analysis and design. We recognize, as well, that creating a solid and scalable portal foundation — along with a set of governing and operational procedures the business can manage — is critical to leveraging and protecting the significant investment businesses make in their online channels and enterprise digital assets. Our approach to design relies on a solid Portal Strategy to balance these often competing interests. We create a scalable and informed design that incorporates the results of a rigorous analysis phase and that fully specifies the portal solution.

An LDS Portal Design incorporates two core phases of our methodology: Envision and Elaborate. Our analysis and initial design phase, Envision, builds off the Portal Strategy to define a portal-based business solution that articulates the business and user requirements of the "future" portal. The portal detailed design specifications are created in our Elaborate phase, which facilitate a fully-implementable portal solution.

At LDS, we recognize the various facets of Portal Design Best Practices, including:

• People-Centered Design
• Portals and Web 2.0
• Informed Portal Design
• Adaptable and Scalable Design
• User Adoption Model.