Step Two Designs

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 [...]

Categorised under: Intranets, Usability & user-centered design

Also tagged: change, Information architecture, Intranets, navigation, organisational change

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Intranet information architecture (IA) can be notoriously difficult to get right. Depending on the size and geographical spread of an organisation, an intranet can be required to serve a small team, or a global conglomerate and there are many different potential audiences. The article What is information architecture? provides an overview of the discipline itself [...]

Categorised under: Information architecture, Intranets

Also tagged: Information architecture, Intranets, personalisation, usability

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Every intranet includes some of the organisation’s policies and procedures. This article outlines the common ways to collate and share this information. We will cover: different navigation methods examples of layout for content pages best practices for improving the experience for staff Policies and procedures are important information, and may apply over the whole organisation, [...]

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Also tagged: design, Information architecture, Intranets, policies, usability

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The classic texts of project management outline the importance of initial planning and design activities. While they only consist of 10-30% of the project, they lay the groundwork for everything to come. This is no different in the world of SharePoint intranets. Quite the contrary: with the breadth of SharePoint, and the effort and cost [...]

Categorised under: Content management, Intranets, SharePoint, Usability & user-centered design

Also tagged: design, Information architecture, Intranets, planning, SharePoint, strategy, usability

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Not all staff needs are the same. Staff in different parts of the organisation, located in different areas and doing different jobs will have quite distinct needs. In a globe-spanning manufacturing business, these differences are very obvious: individual countries sell different products; the sales division operates very differently from product development; and field engineers are [...]

Categorised under: Intranets, Usability & user-centered design

Also tagged: framework, global, Information architecture, Intranets, local

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