Scottish UPA: Thinking Big - Creating usable enterprise portals (Tuesday 22 March)
Speakers: Mark Wetton and Anne-Marie Scott
Large institutional portals have a particular information architecture challenge of being a 'one stop shop' for several applications for a widely divergent audience. Additional challenges include the devolved content contribution, meeting accessibility standards, and the inevitable organisational issues.
In this presentation the portal development team from Edinburgh University will present a detailed case study highlighting how they incorporated usability and accessibility throughout the design process for their enterprise portal. You will have the chance to learn from this case study based presentation where pragmatism has proven an essential tool in addressing the broad scope and politics of usability from an enterprise portal perspective.
Speaker biographies: Mark Wetton and Ann Marie Scott are the portal development officers for the University of Edinburgh. They have a strong interest in user-centred design and accessibility, and have been leading several initiative to increase the user centred design for all of the University's digital channels.
Date: Tuesday 22 March
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Microsoft Edinburgh, 127 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 4JN
Scottish UPA website: http://www.scottishupa.org.uk