Archives for Usability

Employee personas and how to create them

By: James Robertson Posted: June 23, 2020

Creating employee personas is an effective way to understand the needs of your workforce, and to plan and design solutions accordingly.

Five principles for university intranets

By: Cairo Walker Posted: July 30, 2015

University intranets are transforming, driven by design thinking and new technology options.

I was honoured  to be the opening keynote presenter at IntraTeam Event 2015 today. This is a wonderful conference, held in Denmark, a country that really gets the intranet. The …

Redesigning the enterprise

By: James Robertson Posted: February 24, 2015

Design can transform the way we work, from fixing usability issues to uncovering new business solutions.

Finding staff for intranet research

By: Catherine Grenfell Posted: July 29, 2014

There are both formal and informal ways of finding staff for user research

Create information clusters, not pigeon holes

By: Steve Byrne Posted: June 27, 2014

When structuring a site, take a bottom-up approach to identify the right clusters

Never underestimate the power of a colourful room

By: James Robertson Posted: February 21, 2014

In recent times, we’ve been doing a lot of work in the university space, typically around determining a practical strategy for a new intranet/portal (depending on what you call it). …

Award-winning intranets engage users throughout the design process

By: James Robertson Posted: January 17, 2014

Involving users in the design phase of an intranet or web-based project is not just about gathering requirements and testing designs. It is also provides an excellent opportunity to engage …

Designing intranet role pages

By: Catherine Grenfell Posted: November 27, 2013

Intranets serve many different audiences, and role-specific pages can help to meet these diverse needs.

Signposting within documents

By: Steve Byrne Posted: November 27, 2013

Finding the right document is only half the task: is the document structured in a useful way?