Intranet Usability
For intranet developers who want to help employees find and use content quickly and easily, “Intranet Usability” is a 2-day immersion seminar that gives delegates hands-on experience with several usability tools and techniques. Unlike web usability courses, this intranet-specific workshop contains examples of award-winning intranets for delegates to compare their own intranet against.
This seminar describes best practice in intranet usability, demonstrates many examples of award-winning intranets and teaches you the tools and techniques you need to make your own company's intranet a success with its users. This seminar is led by Dr. David Travis who has over 20 years experience in the field of user centred design.
"The training was both relevant and comprehensive and provided actual examples from my firm. Thoroughly beneficial."
– Emma McEwen, Barlow, Lyde & Gilbert.
Duration
This is a two-day seminar.
You will learn how to
- Describe the general principles of user-centred design and communicate the benefits of usability.
- Articulate the specific usability issues facing intranets by examining the "before" and "after" re-designs of award-winning intranets.
- Observe and interview users to understand their requirements and their tasks.
- Write better content and improve the layout of individual pages and forms.
- Simplify site structures and intranet navigation.
- Use rapid techniques to design and prototype sites.
- Test the usability and accessibility of your intranet.
Detailed lesson plan for this seminar (pdf format, 164 kb).
This seminar is aimed at
- Software developers who want to learn techniques for designing better intranet.
- Business analysts who want quick and effective tools to communicate intranet user requirements.
- Interface designers who want to learn methods for evaluating their intranet designs.
- Website designers who want to understand the principles of human-centred design.
Price and availability
"Intranet Usability" public training
Next public seminar in intranet usability:
- November 4-5 2008, London. 8 places remaining.
£675/delegate + VAT. (You can pay now by credit card or later by invoice).
"Intranet Usability" in-house training
We can customise our intranet usability training and run it on your company premises for 4-12 delegates. Prices from £240/delegate + VAT (assuming 12 delegates). We customise this seminar by (i) including examples of good and bad practice from your company's intranet and (ii) taking a new intranet application and relating the techniques to it. The seminar then provides a 2-day "usability hot-house" for the new development.
To book an in-house seminar, phone us on 020 7917 9535, e-mail us at or use the fax back form in our brochure.
What delegates say about this seminar
- "We covered a huge range of usability issues. The instructor had a tremendous breadth and depth of knowledge and presented the material in an engaging and interactive manner."
- "If only every web developer/publisher in our organisation had the opportunity to attend this course."
- "The hands-on exercises were brilliant, especially the user testing and the paper mock-ups."
- "Very well illustrated and to the point, with excellent videos from usability tests."
- "The analysis of existing intranet sites really showed me the importance of something we tend to neglect."
- "Should be part of every web developer's education."
- "I now feel more comfortable and knowledgeable when explaining usability to other web developers."
- "Extremely relevant to our jobs in building sites and policing other people's work."
- "David demonstrated his expert knowledge in an interesting and interactive two days that kept us all focused on the material."
- "The detailed guidelines, checklists and worksheets at the back of the notes will be invaluable."
Money back guarantee
On completion of a public seminar, if you don't think that the training will help you do your job better, we will refund your registration fee in full.
More information
Detailed lesson plan for this particular seminar (pdf format, 164 kb).
2008 Course Brochure, describing all our usability training seminars (pdf format, 796 Kb).
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