Real-world screenshots of intranets that deliver effective, usable content.
Archives for usability
Employee personas and how to create them.
Creating employee personas is an effective way to understand the needs of your workforce, and to plan and design solutions accordingly.
Redesigning the enterprise.
Design can transform the way we work, from fixing usability issues to uncovering new business solutions.
Designing intranet homepages that help employees do their jobs.
How much of your intranet home is red (irrelevant) vs green (directly helpful for staff)?
How to make this your last big intranet redesign.
Intranet redesigns involve a huge amount of work, so how do we make this the last big redesign that’s needed?
Tree testing for effective navigation.
Tree testing provides a cheap and effective way of checking draft navigation before proceeding further into a redesign.
What message does your intranet send to your staff?.
Organisations with a strong public brand and reputation are under growing pressure to deliver an intranet to match.
Jargon test your intranet.
Jargon can make it hard for even experienced intranet users to find what they need and to complete tasks.
Creating effective intranet "shop windows".
Intranets filled with ‘blah blah’ landing pages can make it impossible for staff to find what they need.
Identifying staff tasks.
Understanding common and important staff tasks underpins every aspect of intranet design and management.