EMEA Presentations

Building new and modern self-service functionality for students and faculty: of course one wants to use the new 'Fluid' technology Oracle is announcing in the last years, even when their own implementations are not ready yet. Using the delivered documentation and standards, the SaNS Expert Center started building the self-service functionality we designed with CY2 for the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (demonstrated in the previous part). But we experienced that the learning curve for building Fluid pages is quite steep. Not only we needed to get used to the new coding approach, we also had to leave the pixel-perfect page design, rethink grid development and immerse ourselves in CSS, HTML5 and countless groupboxes. Fluid gives us 'responsiveness', but even more a different navigation paradigm. It's about tiles, master/detail pages, related actions, searching and filtering, and using pivot grids.
In the presentation we will show you what we learned, sometimes the hard way, building the self-service functionality our users want. What works and what not; what new skills are needed; which of the available new techniques and design-patterns you use in what circumstances.