Sungard Portal
Sungard Portal from Gautam Vora
SUNGARD PORTAL

SUNGARD Portal is a higher education portal that simplifies information exchange for students, faculty, and staff by giving them a single, entry point to a university's intraweb. Built on SharePoint, this product combines two existing portal offerings to simplify administration and maintenance for SUNGARDS customers so it was important, from a design perspective, to maintain a level of consistency between the merged products.

My role on this project was to explore and define the layouts across devices (responsiveness), test these layouts with customers, and render the wireframes and visual design for each widgets as well as the product as a whole. I built a prototype in Bootstrap to see which responsive layouts work best; wireframes and visuals in Adobe Illustrator.

In this project, the project manager had done the user research and a loose set of requirement definitions beforehand in the form of user stories that I used as design requirements for the project. Since this was a merger of two existing products, it was key to balance a new "refreshed" experience with the familiarity of the old.
I explore some responsive solutions with the help of UI develorper in a quick and dirty HTML prototype. I looked at various solutions to how this could sensibly react to different device sizes, and which layout lent itself best to content consumption including a list view, a single column, a grid of icons, and live grid tiles. These prototypes were shown to our customers at SUNGARD's Live, an annual customer conference.
Wireframes exploring an event calendar. This tracked daily events on campus.
I would prepare various options to show to the team and to our customer panel. Pros and cons were discussed and then I'd adjust the designs to reflect their feedback.
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SUNGARD PORTAL

SUNGARD Portal is a higher education portal that simplifies information exchange for students, faculty, and staff by giving them a single, entry point to a university's intraweb. Built on SharePoint, this product combines two existing portal offerings to simplify administration and maintenance for SUNGARDS customers so it was important, from a design perspective, to maintain a level of consistency between the merged products.

My role on this project was to explore and define the layouts across devices (responsiveness), test these layouts with customers, and render the wireframes and visual design for each widgets as well as the product as a whole. I built a prototype in Bootstrap to see which responsive layouts work best; wireframes and visuals in Adobe Illustrator.

Gautam Vora
Principal UI & Visual Designer Bangalore, India