Intranet projects are challenging at the best of times. Sites are large and content rich. Project teams are often thrown into the deep end, with many constraints and expectations. Intranet projects may confront challenges such as: unclear intranet ownership and governance tight timeframes limited (and often insufficient) budgets varied (and sometimes competing) stakeholder opinions large number ...
Articles tagged: design
First workshop of the year: Intranet Design + Redesign (Sydney, March 25)
Deliver a best practice intranet that is intuitive and usable for staff If the intranet isn’t easy to use, there’s little point in having one! To design (or redesign) an intranet, we need to put ...
Sketchy wireframes
Aaron Travis writes about the benefits of making wireframes look rough. To quote: When it comes to user interface documentation, wireframes have long been the tool of choice. However, using traditional diagramming tools like Visio, OmniGraffle, and InDesign, most wireframes today look the same as their ancestors did from a ...
A day on intranet design with Victorian councils
Last Friday I spent the day in Melbourne, running an Intranet Design + Redesign workshop for local councils. The in-house workshop was organised by one council, and with other councils invited to join the session. We ended up with about 24 people in the room representing 15 different councils ...
Seven roles of the intranet homepage
There is no more contested or challenging page on the intranet than the homepage. As it is the most visible page on the site, everyone wants their piece of the homepage. There is also contention about the role of the intranet homepage: Should the homepage be mostly about news? Is navigation the ...
Ready for the world-premier in London of our “Intranet design + redesign” workshop
Phew! It's been a busy week, and I'm glad to finally be on a plane to Europe. One of the bigger projects was putting the finishing touches to our brand-new Intranet design + redesign workshop. I've been running intranet strategy workshops for years now. They've run in over a dozen countries ...
Brand new workshop: intranet design + redesign (Sydney, 21 October 2009)
We've been working with intranet teams for years now, as well as writing articles and running workshops around the globe. Something that's been on our to-do list for ages now has been to create ...
Paper prototyping
Shawn Medero has written an article on paper prototyping. To quote: As interfaces become ever more complex and development schedules seem to get shorter and shorter, you may find it useful to give up your user-interface modeling software for awhile in favor of something simpler. All you need is paper, ...
New book: What every intranet team should know
This blog has been a bit quiet over the last few months due to some hard work on two seriously exciting projects. The first is a new book, released today. Over the last eight years, we've published 200+ articles covering every aspect ...
Beware of using opinions to design an intranet
I've just settled back in from my most recent conference tour, and I've spent a lot of time talking with intranet teams from a wide variety of organisations, across three continents. Based on the types of approaches I've seen to intranet designs, I'm going to state: Beware of using opinions to ...
