Our user experience team designs portals that have beautiful aesthetics and an optimized information architecture.
Without strong and rapid user adoption, it is impossible for an enterprise portal to reach its full potential. When an organization is considering a wide scale enterprise portal endeavor, it is critical to prioritize the user experience (or "UX") from the very beginning of the engagement. If the user experience is weak, it will hinder adoption and significantly reduce the portal's opportunity for broad organizational success.
It is important to realize that creating a portal user experience involves much more than visual design. Northridge has a large team of highly-skilled designers but design is just one element of the overall portal user experience. UX relates to the way a user feels about interacting with a system which includes subjective aspects of utility, ease of use, and efficiency. Each of the following are critical aspects of portal user experience:
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Visual Design: the overall artistic design of the interface (the "look and feel")
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Branding: the incorporation of brand elements and adherence to style guide parameters
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Interface Design: design of the user interface elements to facilitate user interaction with portal functionality
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Information Architecture: the structural design of the information space
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Navigation Design: the interface elements that facilitate the user's movement through the information architecture
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Interaction Design: the design and development of application flows that facilitate user tasks
Northridge has expertise in each of the core UX categories above and we have been designing and developing high-impact enterprise portals for over a decade. In particular, we have deep expertise in the user experience and creative design aspects of SharePoint. Our portfolio of recent work includes a variety of samples that convey the breadth and depth of our user experience capabilities with numerous SharePoint user experience examples.
To learn more about how Northridge can help your organization, please contact us.