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. Drawing their inspiration from the best of public-facing sites, intranets are shrugging off their dated appearance and joining the modern age. These design improvements matter.
Fundamentally, this is about trust. There is an also an emotional element to intranet design. At a basic level, intranets need to have a clear brand and identity of their own, distinct from the public-facing site and providing continuity as the organisation evolves and restructures. As intranets are hidden within organisations, it is hard to know what good intranet design looks like. Intranets can’t afford to be useful but ugly Conclusion. Most Useful Intranet Base Design in 2011 | Intranet Extranet Blog. 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 | Intranet Extranet Blog. 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) MySunPower hompage is filled with 4 most recent company news. Main navigation is located on the left, while sidebar on the right provides easy access to company calendar, worldtime & corporate portals such as Competitive Intelligence & Community Portal.
The Matrix – Consultancy Intranet (UK) The main area of displays a greeting box, scrolling notice bar , latest news and what’s new box. Eureka – CareUK Intranet (UK) Clean and simple – Care UK intranet focuses on searching in the middle area. Basecamp – The North Face Intranet (USA) Example Intranet Designs.