Planning your new intranet – getting the navigation right (video)
One of the first things you define when designing a new intranet is the navigation. This can be done long before any intranet ‘designs’ are created.
One of the first things you define when designing a new intranet is the navigation. This can be done long before any intranet ‘designs’ are created.
The information architecture, how people navigate through the structure of your intranet, and how topics relate to one another, can make or break the usability of your intranet. By involving end-users in group and individual exercises you can discover what will work for people, and so meet users’ expectations with more intuitive navigation menus.
Its common to hear that SharePoint is difficult to use; there are now a plethora of companies selling out of the box SharePoint solutions to improve the experience. But we know that SharePoint can be designed to be easy to use and even beautiful. Heres what we offered one big client.
Corporate websites are meticulously designed to evoke trust, retain attention, and to be easy to use. Intranets often lag behind such attention to detail.
A dozen tactics to support your intranet adoption strategy, for before and after relaunch.
There are many ways to build a new intranet, or revamp an ageing one. Whatever your approach, your objective must be to create a useful, useable intranet that adds value to your business.
Most people are eager to update to the latest version of their favourite app, but its just not possible to press an update button with SharePoint. The wise intranet manager will have a certain amount of trepidation as they embark along the SharePoint migration path.
You might be most concerned with making sure site collections (Team Sites, My Sites) get upgraded to SharePoint 2013 smoothly; find out what to watch out for as you hit the metaphorical update button.
We’ve learned creating “pretty” SharePoint functionality means thinking quite a long way past “Out of the box”. Here’s just a little taste of the sort of things you can create with some good SharePoint knowledge, lateral thinking and just a dash of wizardry.