Intranet Design – A Business Approach to a Winning Design. Does SharePoint Destroy Intranet Design? What attractive intranets look like. Written by James Robertson, published July 29th, 2010 Categorised under: articles, intranets, usability & information architecture The winds of change are blowing for intranets.
Every intranet survey run in the wider community has shown that 50% of intranet teams are planning (or hoping) to redesign their sites. With any redesign comes the opportunity for a fresh new look and feel. Most Useful Intranet Base Design in 2011. As we start a new year we had an interesting series of reviews of some of our Intranet designs in 2011.
We have many example systems and guideline documents on intranet design, but one key in the early process for designing a new intranet is to show the customer team a large selection of designs that we have already completed. Based on their feedback the designers can then move onto the Photoshop mockup process, which is always reviewed, completed and signed off before any interface is actually built.
As a new client it seems that there is nothing worse than just being asked to describe “what you like” when confronted by a blank whiteboard with one of our designers looking at you and expectantly holding a marker pen – but the same clients can certainly point out areas of other designs that they appreciate and would like to incorporate into their own new web platform. Best Intranet Design I think there are indeed some strong basic points about this design :
Intranet design showcase. There are not many example Intranet designs available for review, perhaps because of the nature of the Intranet which is for internal consumption only.
There is no reason why Intranet can’t be functional as well as attractive & pleasing to use, after all who wants to work all day on a badly designed system? In the show case below we present 5 Intranet designs powered by Claromentis Intranet & Extranet Manager. MySunPower – SunPower Intranet (USA) Example Intranet Designs.