Who am I?

Gary Elsbernd

Sometimes I get an idea that won't leave me alone. Whether these ideas are about design patterns, technical development or implementation, archery or science fiction, the elsblog is where I put my ideas and hopefully share them with the world.

I am a passionate advocate for user centered design with more than 30 years of experience. In my current role as Principle Experience Designer for Sun Life (US) based out of the Kansas City office, I am particularly interested in usability and performance centered design in web and mobile applications. 

Performanced Centered Portals

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In late 2001, after starting my own consultancy, I decided I needed my name out there, so I wrote an article for Performance Improvement magazine.  It was about portals, which were somewhat new at the time.  While the technology had been around, they were still abused and poorly designed for users in many cases.  Though I didn't know much about the technology, I knew how to design for performance, and wrote the article.

I went on to present this topic with Matt Hummel at ForUse 2001 in Portsmouth NH.

If I were updating this article today, I would do many things differently, but then again, I have been working within the IBM Websphere Portal infrastructure for four years now and know how many of my ideas were naive.  :)

Here it is, warts and all.

Performance Centered Portals