From log-in, a person might land on your intranet home page or, depending how they logged in, the Office Home page.įrom here, they have to click on SharePoint. Think about how people access the home page of the intranet. Microsofts cloud SharePoint offering expects everyone to think in an app way OneDrive is an app Delve is an app Word is now an app all accessible from the main waffle icon. Many people, it seems from my research, like to start a fresh task from the home page but getting back to the home page from wherever they are within the Microsoft cloud is a challenge. One striking finding that I cant ignore is how difficult people find returning to the home page is. Ive been conducting rough and ready user testing in recent weeks, looking into how people think and feel about their Office 365 intranet. User research shows hiding menu items means they dont get used Many people do not notice the icon, cannot interpret the three horizontal lines, and do not ever touch it.

Do you feel the same?īut if youre keeping up with design trends and user research, you might know that the hamburger menu does not appear inviting to everyone.

These days, Im happy to see the hamburger menu, and ignore it, until I want to explore the site. How do you feel about the hamburger icon that you might notice when using a mobile site? When I first started seeing this web furniture I was happy to touch it to explore, and not unexpectedly, there was a menu. Microsofts cloud subscription model has made the power of SharePoint available to organisations that previously would not have had the IT support necessary to deploy such enterprise level software.īut organisations of every size have to consider the user experience that out-of-the box SharePoint offers, and theres a problem: people cant get home. Building a usable intranet on SharePoint is easier than ever before owing to Office 365 in the cloud.

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