Design: ATG Dynamo Portal
Summary: Designed the administrative and end-user interfaces for Art Technology Group's ATG Portal. The Portal Application allows companies to set up information-exchange Web sites for particular communities within the company, and to control access to the community via password.
Problem context: Large companies with multiple interest groups have a difficult time getting those groups to communicate. An online method of allowing these groups to communicate and make use of functionality specialized to them would increase employee efficiency and benefit the company's bottom line.
Project goal: Create the administrative and end-user interfaces that control the Portal application. The administrative interfaces needed to control community content and user access to communities. There may be hundreds of separate communities and thousands of users on a single portal, so the admin interfaces needed to be easy and quick to use. The end-user interfaces needed to accommodate widely ranging functionality and color schemes depending on the functionality assigned to it by administrators. The end-user interfaces also needed to be understandable to basic computer users.
My role: Personally created prototype demonstrations of all administrative and end-user interface screens. Verified how functionality worked with Product Managers for business appropriateness; verified functionality with engineers for technical feasibility; personally implemented user interface using JSP, in conjunction with ATG engineers.
Communities Admin
Community management screen. Note ATG branding on this screen. Other screens demonstrate the different color schemes, as dictated by the administrator.
Community Settings Admin
Administrators can edit aspects of individual communities, including basic community settings.
Community Users Admin
Users can be assigned to individual communities with this screen.
Select Gears
Administrators can select "gears"--items of functionality such as stock quotes or discussion boards--that are available to a community.
Page Layout
Administrators can also select which gears appear on individual pages in a community, and how the gears are laid out.
Create User
Administrators can create new users in a community using this page.