About Landor: Landor Associates is one of the world’s leading strategic brand consulting and design firms. Founded by industry pioneer Walter Landor in 1941, Landor has a rich heritage of brand strategy and design leadership. Partnering with clients, Landor drives brand-led business transformation. Landor’s holistic approach to branding builds upon the combined rigour of disciplined thinking and process and exceptional creativity. Landor’s work spans the full breadth of branding services, including brand positioning, brand asset management, brand architecture, brand research, brand valuation, packaging and structural design, branded experiences, brand engagement, corporate identity design, and naming. With 23 offices in 18 countries, Landor’s current and past clients include some of the world’s most powerful brands, including BlackBerry, BP, Citi, Diageo, Emaar, LG Group, the City of Madrid, Microsoft, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, and Taj Hotels & Resorts. Landor is part of WPP, one of the world’s largest global communications services companies. Landornet Platform: Launched in 1996 making it among the first enterprise Intranets in the Branding, Design vertical and the first among all Young & Rubicam Brands companies. Built on Microsoft .asp and MS SQL. Hardware is Intel Xeon 3.60Ghz (four cores), 4 GB RAM, running on Windows Server 2000 SP2 In its third design iteration the last being released back in 2003. Version four is to be constructed in 2010 and the team is investigating what platform makes sense this time.
Intranet Design – A Business Approach to a Winning Design - Presentation Transcript
Intranet Design – A Business Approach to a Winning Design Toby Ward, CEO & Catherine Elder, Senior Manager Prescient Digital Media Condensed Version. Please contact us for full version.
Agenda
Design Examples
Design Process
Assessment - planning – design
More Examples & Discussion
NOTE: this presentation on Slideshare only shows a few of the examples used. For a complete version, please contact us directly to arrange for a presentation of the complete version with all 25 intranets.
About Prescient
Toronto-based consulting firm with consultants also in Vancouver
Prescient plans & builds highly effective websites and intranets that…
are demonstrably better than the competition;
make CEOs and users happy; and
deliver measurable value by increasing sales and employee productivity.
Winner of more than a dozen awards incl. a prestigious Webby Award
Established 2001; profitable, no debt
Just some of our clients
Services
Web Blueprinting
Strategic Planning
Business Requirements Analysis
Business Case & ROI Planning
Blueprint Development
Benchmarking & Best Practices
Information Architecture
Governance
Measurement Planning
Vendor Selection & PM
Design & Development
Health Content
eHealth Tools & Databases
User Research
Usability Testing
Content Management & Workflow
Usability Testing
Content Development
Communications & Marketing
Site Management
Corporate Workshops
Full video & audio production
Think about
Are you satisfied with your current intranet design?
Do your stakeholders or partners complain about home page space?
Business driven design vs ‘whim’ driven design
Intranet Design Process
Don’t spin the wheel Communications Red Yellow Blue HR IT Static Personalized Role based Kitchen sink Blogs & wikis News
Business driven design
Assessment
Business stakeholder input
Employee input
Benchmarking input
Planning
Strategic plan
Functional plan & personas
Information architecture
Wireframes
Creative brief
Design
Design Style guide
Assessment – For Design
Evaluation of current site
Review of any data gathered (metrics, employee satisfaction survey)
Stakeholder interviews
Employee surveys
Usability testing
Focus groups
Benchmarking
Scoring / Benchmarking
On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1=poor and 10=excellent, how would you rate your website on the following:
Design and Layout
Information Architecture and Usability
Search and Find-ability
Content
Tools and innovation
Planning and Resources
Benchmarking Gap / Opportunity
Information Architecture
My Stuff Intranet Name I Want to:
Tools
IS Tips
Meeting room booking
Glossary Wiki
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My Links
My Business Line
My Dept
My Projects
My forms
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Creative Brief
Review & incorporate brand guidelines
Determine color palette
Determine font types, sizes, headers, etc
Use of images / icons
Technical parameters / limitations
Design Concepts
Review creative brief with brand guidelines
Apply colors, style and images to wireframes
Review concepts and fine tune
Get approvals
Don’t
Design by committee
Expect everyone to like everything
Why client’s hire us
Clients describe their sites as:
Ugly
Frustrating
Would like to blow it up
A garage where everything ends up
What clients want in design
Make it fun
Make it sexy
Make it a place employees want to go
More color
More photos
More of our achievements
Make it interesting
Make it engaging
Case study examples NOTE: this presentation on Slideshare only shows a few of the examples used. For a complete version, please contact us directly to arrange for a presentation of the complete version with all 25 intranets.
Other Intranets
Verizon
IBM
ESPN
AGL
EA
BT
American Electric Power
Deloitte
Bank of America
Financial Company
Pepsi
Coca-Cola
Sun Microsystems
Landor
SaskPower
Beehive
Fringe
Advancial Federal
CHR Hansen
Cisco
IBM (IBM Websphere Portal) Source: IBM, Slideshare.net
IBM > Beehive (custom built)
IBM > Fringe (custom built)
Intranet, Ektron CMS Source: Prescient Digital Media (client)
What do the best intranets look like? What are the more
What do the best intranets look like? What are the best practices and principles for redesigning an intranet? Having designed and re-designed dozens of intranet sites (and websites), Toby Ward and Catherine Elder draw on their experiences to provide best practices in approaching intranet design.
This webinar includes the correct process for undertaking a new design, do’s and don’ts, key elements for designing for usability, how to take a user centric approach to design, and how to develop design guidelines. The webinar also feature screenshots from dozens of successful & leading intranet.
Learning Outcomes:
Learn how to:
* Approach an Intranet redesign or design project
* Design for usability
* Design for users
* What other successful intranets look like
This webinar is for anyone responsible for an intranet, portal or Internet that wants to better understand web design. Specifically intranet owners, managers, contributors & stakeholders in:
* Communications
* IT
* E-Business
* HR
* Marketing
* Operations
* Finance
* the Office of the President
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