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• Quicklinks: Bad Label or Indicative of Usability Issues

  September 1, 2014Sep 1, 2014 | Article: 5 minutemins to read

  A Quicklinks UI component often surfaces as a poor fix for addressing findability and discoverability issues on intranets. Acting as a catch-all for different types of links causes a separate set of issues. And Quicklinks is always a vague label.

• Intranet Portals are the Hub of the Enterprise Universe

  June 29, 2014Jun 29, 2014 | Article: 10 minutemins to read

  Enterprise portals today drive usage with helpful applications, soar with role-based personalization, and employ a variety of user research methods, but lag in mobile optimization.

• Radio Buttons: Select One by Default or Leave All Unselected?

  June 1, 2014Jun 1, 2014 | Article: 12 minutemins to read

  Select a single radio button by default in most cases. Reasons to deviate or not: expedite tasks, the power of suggestion, user expectations, safety nets.

• Really Break Grammar Rules on Websites: Part Two

  April 1, 2014Apr 1, 2014 | Article: 6 minutemins to read

  Deviating from old writing guidelines makes digital content seem very fresh!!

• Responsive Design and Intranets and Importance of Content Prioritization

  March 23, 2014Mar 23, 2014 | Article: 8 minutemins to read

  Two winning intranets—triptic and Abt Associates—use responsive design, prioritize their content, and employ elegant navigation to accommodate and optimize for multiple devices.

• Talking with Participants During a Usability Test

  January 26, 2014Jan 26, 2014 | Article: 5 minutemins to read

  Talk less and learn more by being prepared to use 3 sound, practical techniques for interrupting or answering users while facilitating a usability test or other behavioral research study.

• Charrettes (Design Sketching): ½ Inspiration, ½ Buy-In

  December 22, 2013Dec 22, 2013 | Article: 3 minutemins to read

  Design charrettes inspire design sketches and ideas, include more people in the design process, explore and expose goals and objectives of colleagues in multiple functional roles, and drive off designer’s block.

• Suggested-Employee Search—The Best Intranet Design Today—Could Save Your Organization Half a Million Dollars

  December 1, 2013Dec 1, 2013 | Article: 7 minutemins to read

  Searching for colleagues is the most common task that employees do on intranets, and is arguably the most important task. Forms, news, and apps aid employee productivity, but you can't beat talking with the right people. Today's design patterns for intranet employee search make the act of finding people outrageously fast and easy.

• Carousel Usability: Designing an Effective UI for Websites with Content Overload

  September 14, 2013Sep 14, 2013 | Article: 7 minutemins to read

  Carousels require good navigation and content to effectively communicate information in a crowded space.

• E-Mailing Press Releases to Journalists

  January 19, 2009Jan 19, 2009

  3 design guidelines for sending press releases to journalists by email.

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