Step Two Designs

Avoid structuring the intranet to match today’s business units, and think twice about ‘my’.

Tree testing provides a cheap and effective way of checking draft navigation before proceeding further into a redesign.

There are a variety of smart ways to help staff find what they need, when searching and browsing.

Intranets filled with ‘blah blah’ landing pages can make it impossible for staff to find what they need.

It is widely assumed that intranet homepages need to be squeezed into a single screenful, but can longer pages be made to work?

It is not enough to focus an intranet redesign on just the home page, global navigation and page layout.

Rather than embarking on a major project at the first sign of problems, consider tactical solutions such as the redesign of the home page.