Design Principles
The following Design Principles motivate and ensure that Buff Portal is:
- Accessible and Secure: Ensure the portal is inclusive and accessible to all students, including those with disabilities, and maintains stringent security to protect sensitive data.
- Whole and Connective: Provide a unified and integrated access point for all student services, with a seamless single sign-on experience.
- Personal and Adaptive: Personalize the experience and adapt the portal to present relevant information based on individual student contexts and time-sensitive needs.
- Intuitive and Consistent: Offer a user-friendly interface with straightforward functions and consistent design patterns to reduce the learning curve.
- Reliable and Performant: Develop a robust infrastructure that ensures efficiency and high performance across devices and networks.
- Beautiful and Content-Optimized: Employ an aesthetically pleasing design that simplifies task completion, with content presented through progressive disclosure.
- Feedback-Driven and Sustainable: Commit to ongoing refinement of the portal based on user research and feedback, while balancing a sustainable personalized design for long-term viability.
- Flexible and Future-Proof: Incorporate a design that allows for flexibility in emergencies and adaptability for future technologies and methodologies.
How we like to work
We apply a communication-forward approach in our collaborations. Want to work with us? Email us at buffportal@colorado.edu.
