This article outlines nine steps that can be taken by all intranet teams to improve the effectiveness of search, covering both design and under-the-hood changes.
Archives for usability
Accessibility tips for website construction.
We all know accessibility is important, but precisely how does one make a website or intranet more accessible? Often what is needed is a pragmatic…
Information scent: helping people find the content they want.
Creating strong information scents allows users to confidently find desired content on websites and intranets.
What is usability?.
This article provides an overview of what usability is (and what it is not), as well as giving ideas on how to include more usability…
Using a “strawman” for page layout design.
Using a ‘strawman’ design in the early stages of a project can help to overcome many of the difficulties in the design process.
Improving your intranet, task by task.
By improving the way the intranet supports key tasks, immediate business benefits can be delivered in a manageable and cost-effective manner.
Evaluating Caloundra City Council’s EDMS classification.
Usability testing Keywords for Councils classification produces surprising results.
Five ways to identify intranet usability issues.
This article provides five techniques to identify likely usability problems in your intranet. Some techniques provide indications about where the main problems lie, others provide…
The difference between usable and useful.
A redesigned site can be easy and quick to use, and perfectly structured, and still be useless. For a site to be useful, it must…
Using usability to direct KM systems.
KM has much to learn from usability, which can provide many useful starting points for structuring and managing KM projects.