ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the portal user interface (UI) architecture, latest UI and web technology trends, main challenges in UI layer, and UI best practices. A portal has to either provide built-in support for the latest technologies or provide easy integrations through plug-ins for supporting it. Aligning with latest UI trends makes the portal future-proof. A user experience of a portal platform has a great influence on user adoption, retention, usage, and ultimate success of the portal site. A responsive web design (RWD) provides fuid layout and UI elements to portal so that the user experience is optimized for all browser and mobile devices. An RWD can be implemented using standard technologies, and most of the portal products provide built-in support for RWD technologies. A responsive portal UI is a pre-dominant trend which is the key enabler for portal omni-channel and mobile first strategy.
