Intranet Design

A good intranet will improve how you do business. A great intranet will also be an enjoyable and rewarding experience for staff.

Shift intranets are designed to be well used and well liked by your staff. They’re also simple to keep up-to-date.

Smart intranets

Intranets have revolutionised internal communications and inspired new thinking about office management and staff relations.

Once valued purely as information store-houses, they are increasingly recognised for their power to stimulate positive work environments that are as vibrant as they are efficient.

In large organisations a good intranet is often the best way to promote quality and consistency across business group silos. An intranet can dissolve walls, introducing different parts of the business to each other and getting them talking.

When Shift designs an intranet we work alongside our clients. We get to know them and develop an insider’s understanding of their business needs and objectives.

Tooled up

An intranet is a great way to put staff in touch with forms, policies and templates. But as a core business and communication tool its potential is limitless.

Shift has designed shared workspaces, project management tools and directories that make collaborating easier; and forums to stimulate creative thinking and ideas sharing.

To design an effective intranet, Shift involves people from all levels of the organisation, invites their input and enlists their support. Rigorous user testing helps us to determine the perfect design, structure and tone.

Culture counts

Defining an organisation’s culture is a crucial step in designing a successful intranet. It needs to reflect your brand, vision and values.

But an intranet won’t be successful if it doesn’t also reflect the unique collective personality of your staff. Effective intranets are a functional and aesthetic extension of who you are and what you do.

Shift-designed intranets

Housing New Zealand’s intranet had grown over time into an enormous collection of documents and data. They asked Shift to revamp the site, improve usability and align the look and feel with the organisation’s values and objectives.

We audited the content and developed a new architecture that was extensively tested across the organisation. The interface is user friendly and the tone relaxed.

Housing New Zealand is set up to easily update the site using the Shado content management system. We’ve also designed intranets for Tourism New Zealand, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and Carter Holt Harvey.