Designing Compelling Intranets

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ModernHuman. MH Designing Compelling Intranets. Presented by Paul-Jervis Heath on Friday 30 August 2013. Photo credit Flickr user mhaithaca - http://bit.ly/16KLrU9

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An Intranet should be a vital business tool and an important communication channel between us and our colleagues. Email is pretty poor for communications - the average open rate for email is around 20-something percent. The half-life of an email is around 3.4 hours. So my first point is that there has been an understandable shift away from push communication to pull communication. In order to realise the benefit we have to create an intranet that is vital to people's working lives and day-to-day activity. The best way to achieve that is by understanding how our colleagues work through contextual design research - by getting inside their heads and understanding their latent needs (not just taking their reported needs at face value). If we understand their real needs and we understand how their expectations of the Intranet will be driven by the trends in consumer technology then we can anticipate their future needs. The intranet models that exist are useful abstractions as we imagine the future functionality but we shouldn't forget to design for usage, evolution, unpredicted needs and entropy. This talk was first presented at Glasgow University to their Internal Communications and IT community.

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ModernHuman.MH

Designing Compelling Intranets.

Presented by Paul-Jervis Heath on Friday 30 August 2013.

Photo creditFlickr user mhaithaca - http://bit.ly/16KLrU9

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~20%email open rate

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~3.4hhalf-life of an email

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There has been a shift away from push communication to pull communication.

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Intranets can become a destination.

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Creating the default starting place for IBM employees…

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Administrators Academics Students

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Indifference

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Understandable

Interesting

Useful

Compelling

Indispensable

Advocacy

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Focus groups are not design research.

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Usability testing is vital but it will not uncover users’ needs.

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image of mental model

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Getting inside peoples’ heads is the only way to uncover their latent needs.

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Consumer devices continue to raise our users’ expectations of technology.

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79% 70%use their smartphones to

help with shoppinguse their smartphones whilst

standing in a store

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The rate of adoption is accelerating

(Time to Reach 150 Million Users)

89 years

38 years

14 years

7years

5 years

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Cambridge University’s website just became available on a mobile.

Google are about to put the internet directly into your right eye.

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Uni"ed Presentation Of Services

Digital

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Wearable Mobile Dedicated Devicee.g. kindle

or kiosk

Tablet Large Displays

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📰 ✎Managed Collaboration Social

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Refer,Learn,

Publish

Social

Collaboration

Managed

Real-time, unpredictable

Creative, Co-ordinated, Goal Oriented

Authoritative, Stable, Reference

Work,Create,

Do

Discover,Discuss

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Functionality News Content

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Centralised.

Decentralised.

Distributed.

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• Identifying the right applications can turn intranets into an indispensable tool.

• Design research helps you identify the right balance of functionality, news and content.

• Entropy is a fact of life, it can be designed for.

• Centralised, decentralised and distributed models can be applied to information architecture, content strategy and governance.

Wait. What was that again?

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Paul-Jervis [email protected]@pauljervisheath

ModernHuman.We use human-centred design to help businesses invent their future. We’re a design practice & innovation consultancy. Find out more at http://modernhuman.co

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