Creating employee personas is an effective way to understand the needs of your workforce, and to plan and design solutions accordingly.
Archives for Usability
Five principles for university intranets.
University intranets are transforming, driven by design thinking and new technology options.
Redesigning the enterprise.
Design can transform the way we work, from fixing usability issues to uncovering new business solutions.
Finding staff for intranet research.
There are both formal and informal ways of finding staff for user research
Create information clusters, not pigeon holes.
When structuring a site, take a bottom-up approach to identify the right clusters
Designing intranet role pages.
Intranets serve many different audiences, and role-specific pages can help to meet these diverse needs.
Signposting within documents.
Finding the right document is only half the task: is the document structured in a useful way?
Mobile is now an assumed part of intranet redesigns.
When conducting an intranet redesign in today’s environment, it’s commonsense to include a mobile element.
Designing intranet homepages that help employees do their jobs.
How much of your intranet home is red (irrelevant) vs green (directly helpful for staff)?
Intranets: global and local.
All intranets must find a balance between global (common) and local (specific) information.