Yesterday, we had the honour of participating in the World Usability Day event held in Canberra, Australia. The global theme for this year was “Healthcare:…
A timely reminder that intranet users are not all the same.
Rebecca Rodgers, who runs our Brisbane office, is currently working with a large Australian community services support organisation. The project started with field research, and…
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.
Use business (not solutions) thinking.
Intranet solutions need a clear business focus and an understanding of organisational factors.
Insight is more important than numbers.
All great intranet solutions, and indeed most great business solutions, rely on gathering information from and about the intended audiences, consumers, stakeholders or other groups…
Insight is more important than numbers.
It’s often more important to learn ‘why’ than ‘what’ when conducting research
Research questions for enterprise mobility.
This week I ran my new enterprise mobility workshop in Australia for the first time. We had a great group of participants, and there were…
Field research is vital when designing enterprise mobile solutions.
Diagram created by Giant Ant For many years now, we’ve highlighted the importance of understanding staff needs when designing or redesigning an intranet. This needs…
Don’t ask staff what features they want on a new SharePoint intranet.
“If we gave you a team site, would it be useful to you?” We’ve said before that the breadth of SharePoint is both its strength…
What intranets can do for … engineers.
Organisations, like people, are often successful because of their strengths. These strengths may sometimes also have a shadow side. Understanding that within these shadows lie…
