Visual design is considered as part of most entrant redesigns, and involves the colours, fonts and graphics that make up the presentation of the pages….
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…
Should the intranet look sexy?.
Public-facing websites often have a strong marketing element to them, but do intranets need to be as polished in their design?
Intranet (re)design wrap-up.
Over the years, we have published a vast amount of information on intranets. In this article, we attempt to wrap up all the activities that…
Search doesn't work out-of-the-box.
Out-of-the-box, search doesn’t work, and there is a small (but vital) piece of work needed to design and tune the search solution.
The intranet homepage, protect it with a policy.
An intranet homepage policy is tool that can provide some welcome support to intranet managers as well as providing a clear direction to business units…
Design intranets all the way to the bottom.
It is not enough to focus an intranet redesign on just the home page, global navigation and page layout.
Introduction to web accessibility.
The industry is finally accepting responsibility for providing accessible websites and intranets. Yet, a great deal of misunderstanding continues to surround the subject of accessibility.
The "all together" rule for intranets.
Intranet content and tools should be aggregated, to help staff find required information, and to complete key tasks.
Information scent: helping people find the content they want.
Creating strong information scents allows users to confidently find desired content on websites and intranets.