Intranet homepage

Using personalization and customization to optimize user experience

See 12 leading intranet homepages analyzed in the slideshow in this article. Did you miss Digital Workplace 24? That’s a bummer, because it was like Burning Man and TED Talks had a baby called “Digital Workplace and Future of Work” that took place online for 24 hours. But the good news is that we’ve extracted…

See 10 different examples of how companies are bringing “social” to their intranet homepages, with screenshots and analysis. As a Community Manager for DWG, I’m incredibly privileged to have the opportunity to speak to many people across the intranet and digital workplace profession about what they’re working on, the challenges they’re facing and their successes….

Intranet mega menus can make large amounts of information much more easily accessible, but they’re fraught with design and usability challenges. This article presents 5 expert tips for implementing intranet mega menus that are user friendly and effective. “We’re thinking of implementing mega menus – do you have any tips or good practice examples?” This…

See five different examples of how companies have used icons to highlight task-based actions on their intranet homepages, with screenshots and analysis. I have a quick game for you. Spot the odd one out: The answer, my friends, is C. Although now commonly recognized as the icon for RSS, it is the only one of…

Synopsis: See six different examples of how companies have designed the quick links on their intranet homepages, with screenshots and analysis. The ubiquitous intranet homepage “quick links” Just about every intranet homepage has some form of “quick links”. On many intranets the list is labelled exactly as that. On other homepages these links are referred…

Many intranets feature a list of “quick links”, intended (one assumes) to give users access to important or popular content or services at the touch of a button. Intranet quick links take up valuable space on the intranet homepage and seem almost universal. But they so often go wrong. Indeed, some commentators would have them…

In some ways the work of managing an intranet has been very much the same for the last decade. In other ways, it’s a rapidly evolving field with new trends and practices surfacing all the time. There’s no better way to tap into those trends than to spend two days hashing out intranet challenges with…