January 29, 2013 by James Robertson
Last year after running one of my full-day enterprise mobility workshops, I received an email from an organisation about mobile design. They indicated they were redesigning their corporate timesheet application, as part of a broader HR project. A wireframe had already been created for the browser version of the application, which looked something like this: [...]
Tags: design, digital workplace, mobile, process
December 20, 2012 by James Robertson
Martin White blogged yesterday about Watching an organisation reorganise – implications for IA and search, which shared the incredible animation created by Autodesk Research: This shows the evolution of Autodesk’s organisational structure over a span of 1498 days. This is best explained by the Autodesk research blog post. (I’d also strongly recommend changing the video [...]
Tags: change, Information architecture, Intranets, navigation, organisational change
December 13, 2012 by James Robertson
In an ideal world, every staff member would be able to access the intranet regardless of role, location or disability. In reality, many staff do not have access to the intranet and accessibility needs are rarely thought about, let alone acted on. However, worldwide legislative changes to create equality in web sites are having a [...]
Tags: accessibility, authoring, content, Intranets, usability
November 8, 2012 by James Robertson
I was pleased to be able to present in Canberra today, as part of World Usability Day. My topic was “How design is transforming modern intranets”. The key points I covered: Intranets must be (and can be) much more than just a “dumping ground for boring documents”. The nature of intranets is fundamentally shifting, due [...]
Tags: design, Intranets, usability, world usability day
July 31, 2012 by James Robertson
The mobile space continues to grow at breakneck pace. Many websites are now seeing upwards of 20-30% of their web traffic coming from mobile devices. This includes both mobile phones (cellphones if you live in the US) and tablets (such as the iPad and others). Reacting to this, many organisations are starting to deliver mobile [...]
Tags: Intranets, mobile, responsive design, usability