By focusing on the online channel's impact on the organization, business processes and people, our informed portal design creates immediate and enduring value.

Portal Design is the epicenter of what we do at LDS. Our focus is clearly on realizing a highly-functional, evolved design that is informed by business strategy and grounded in user experience best practices. We pride ourselves in our strong alignment to, and leverage of, the strategic IT platform and tools used by our clients. We consider our architecture and strategic engineering competencies a point of differentiation for us at LDS, and we integrate these skills and competencies seamlessly into our portal designs.

To us, Portal Design comprises all aspects of the portal requirements to create a portal ecosystem and experience that is relevant, useful, and a channel of change for the business. By combining visual form, behavioral function, and architecture to the portal solution, the goal of an effective portal design is to affect positive change within an organization. Design is therefore a future-oriented activity concerned with what "should be", as compared to "what is."

We deliver our Portal Design services by following the Envision and Elaborate Phases of our proven methodology, The Logical Approach^SM, in which we conduct a comprehensive analysis of an organization’s portal requirements. We carefully analyze the business, user, IT, governance, and change requirements to create a fully informed design.

Value

LDS's Portal Design services enable organizations to create a portal that:

• Meets their business requirements with a focused consideration of processes, programs, behaviors and cultural issues
• Addresses the diverse needs of a user population accessing information via multiple browsers and operating systems (including remote, mobile and handheld devices)
• Satisfies the needs of diverse portal users and the ever-expanding variety of activities, work practices, interactions, and decisions that they expect and need the portal to support
• Ensures the underlying structures of the portal are sound, thereby enabling the portal to scale elegantly and be managed efficiently over time
• Includes a set of aligned strategic and operational best practices, procedures and, where appropriate, tools, from which the portal can be managed, monitored, and iterated once in production.

Duration

12-20 weeks

Deliverables

Deliverables associated with LDS's Portal Design services typically include some of the following:

• Final Portal Solution Requirements
• Foundational Requirements
• Design System
• Page Wireframes
• Final Visual Designs
• Portal Asset Catalog
• Content Production Framework
• Foundational Specifications
• Portal Design Standards (PDS)
• Business Impact Service deliverables, such as Strategic Governance Plan; Roadmap and Rationalized Release Plan; Operational Governance Plan and Design; Communications and Change Management Plan; Brand, Design and Editorial Standards; Migration Plan; and Metrics and Adoption Management Plan and Design.

Further Information

Please contact John Fee, LDS Vice President, Sales, for more information.
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