After lunch on day 2 of Intranets2012, Vernon Meyer is talking about his work at AMP.

Key ideas:
– Intranets need to become more fun, more modern.
– the audience has changed from consuming information … to participating. We need to change our intranets to allow this.
– 10 design principles:
– … (group a) design harmony – (1) adopt a user-centric approach, (2) identify, understand and work with project drivers, and (3) understand how your technology integrates.
– … … there's a sweet spot in the middle … that represents design harmony.
– … (group b) the social interface – (4) social by design, (5) social patterns (look at what other places have done), (6) context first (e.g., designing for mobile), (7) function and form coexist, and (8) adapt to social delivery mechanisms.
– … … see Paul Adams book.
– … … it's about designing from the person out.
– … … for the future design – a new design is coming out in November. There's an activity stream down the middle.
– … … comments made on content link with the activity stream, and vice versa.
– … (group c) design the system – (9) design the system as well as the individual parts, and (10) focus on change early and through-out