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Netscape: MozHome Intranet Navigator
Our team was responsible for the creation, care, and feeding of all mission critical intranet sites, like the company address lookup, department sites, and IT applications. We traditionally maintained the primary portal page allowing access to the dozens of sites in our group along with the hundreds of other unofficial sites hosted around the company.
We were asked to concept and build an intranet portal that showcased features of the newly released Netscape 4. We treated this as an agency project, breaking into 3 teams to pitch different concepts. IT management helped narrow down the field to the MozHome Intranet Remote Control concept. I provided assisted with information architecture, lead interaction and visual design efforts, and prototyped some of the simpler functionality (Using an image mapped transparent layer above the non-square shaped buttons to create unique rollover effects and switching the search tabs.)
Key features of the remote included:
- A tear-off search bar thanks to a signed jar file which floated on the user’s desktop like a real application
- Dropdown menus providing deep links to information that was commonly requested, organized in ways that our testing indicated intranet user’s would find most comfortable
- A promotional area of triangular buttons
- A scrolling news pane
- A training mode providing rollover help for the entire panel
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