Archive for the ‘Usability’ Category
It looks like I skipped posting the Bad Usability Calendar last year. I’m not sure how I missed it, it’s one of the most interesting ways to demonstrate easy ways to avoid bad usability. Developed by Netlife Research, a user experience consultancy firm based in Oslo, Norway, the calendar is in the 6th year of publication and available in [...]
The folks at Bennett Jones have won another intranet award, this time from the Nielsen Norman Group (whose business focus is usability) in their report, Intranet Design Annual 2011: Year’s 10 Best Intranets. In the announcement, Jakob Nielson referred to Bennett Jones while talking about knowledge sharing: Offering repositories for case studies, samples, and other [...]
Creating a business critical intranet for your organization is a difficult task. Like any project, there are many ways an intranet project can go awry. In2009, the Standish Group reported that the failure or near failure of IT projects is almost certain in a high percentage of those projects: The Standish Group’s just-released report, “CHAOS Summary 2009,” “This year’s [...]