Archives for Usability

Employee personas and how to create them

By: James Robertson Posted: June 23, 2020

Creating employee personas is an effective way to understand the needs of your workforce, and to plan and design solutions accordingly.

Redesigning the enterprise

By: James Robertson Posted: February 24, 2015

Design can transform the way we work, from fixing usability issues to uncovering new business solutions.

Finding staff for intranet research

By: Catherine Grenfell Posted: July 29, 2014

There are both formal and informal ways of finding staff for user research

Create information clusters, not pigeon holes

By: Steve Byrne Posted: June 27, 2014

When structuring a site, take a bottom-up approach to identify the right clusters

Designing intranet role pages

By: Catherine Grenfell Posted: November 27, 2013

Intranets serve many different audiences, and role-specific pages can help to meet these diverse needs.

Signposting within documents

By: Steve Byrne Posted: November 27, 2013

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

By: James Robertson Posted: October 23, 2013

When conducting an intranet redesign in today’s environment, it’s commonsense to include a mobile element.

Intranets: global and local

By: James Robertson Posted: December 21, 2011

All intranets must find a balance between global (common) and local (specific) information.

Tree testing for effective navigation

By: Steve Byrne Posted: October 26, 2011

Tree testing provides a cheap and effective way of checking draft navigation before proceeding further into a redesign.

Jargon test your intranet

By: Catherine Grenfell Posted: November 10, 2010

Jargon can make it hard for even experienced intranet users to find what they need and to complete tasks.