Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Intranet Portals and Scent are Made for Each Other (12 Dec 2005) As we observed employees using their organization's intranet, we saw a stark trend: Almost always, users only fire up their browser when they have something to do. They have a mission in mind before they even bring up the portal's initial page. The design of the portal's initial page has to service that mission, whatever it is. Well-designed portals do this by putting links to important content and functions (such as registering someone as a building visitor -- a common "important" function we've seen at many security-conscious clients) right on the initial page. Add this article to Del.icio.us Article URL: http://www.uie.com/articles/intranet_portals_scent/ Read 105 more articles from User Interface Engineering sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Maps Special: How far can 100 Euros get you?          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy

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