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Call for Entries: Intranet Design Annual 2022 Award

Since we delayed the 2021 Intranet Design Annual to April this year (instead of our usual January) due to the pandemic, we are staggering the schedule this year.

Important Dates

Contest will open for entries 4 October, 2021 (Monday)
Deadline for entries will be 12 November, 2021 (Friday)
Winners will be notified in early January, 2022
Winners will work with NN/g to provide information from early January, 2022 to early February
Winners will be announced publicly and the report will be published on 11 July, 2022

We are conducting our annual world-renowned competition for the 10 best intranets at the center of today’s digital workplace. Submit your intranet for consideration for the award. Previous years' winners received substantial publicity and recognition, including being honored in the Design Annuals. Some winners have also been invited to speak at our new Intranet & Employee Experience Symposium virtual event.

Eligible Designs

Anything that runs inside a company and is not accessible on the public web, including:

Enterprise-wide intranets
Department-specific intranets
Solutions to internal communications problems that use intranet technology
Internal, web-based applications
Extranets

Designs in any language are welcome, though the description in the entry document should be in English. The intranet should be a functioning intranet, not a prototype or in the planning or design stages at the time of the entry.

Participation: There is no fee to enter. See the submission guidelines below and submit your entry to [email protected].

We never disclose the names of any entries that do not win — only the top 10 winners are featured in the report. Thus, this competition has no losers; only winners.

The Design Annual includes a comprehensive case study of each winning intranet. All winning intranet teams must provide answers to a broad set of questions about their intranets, covering topics such as background, development, design, content and process. In addition to the written questions, we may also conduct phone interviews with your team.

Topics for the 2022 Intranet Design Annual

Our Intranet Design Annual entries often include information about the employee experience and the digital workplace. For this year’s contest we will be looking for more entries that cover the following topics:

Service design and employee experience: What does your organization provide that supports the employee experience?
Intranet in the digital workplace: How and why is the intranet the center of your organization’s digital workplace?
Virtual and hybrid work: How are employees who work virtually or hybridly (part-time virtual and part-time in-office) supported?

Submission Guidelines

There are 2 parts to the initial submission:

Information about the intranet, design, and design process
Screenshots of the intranet (in a zip file or a link via Dropbox or WeTransfer)

We will publish a report with the screenshots from the winning intranets as well as the information about the project and design process. We also sometimes use the best screenshots in our training seminars and articles. Submit only material that you are willing to see published. The report will be read by tens of thousands of intranet professionals, so being published is a major PR opportunity for the winners, but the broad readership means that you should not submit any confidential information.

Part 1: Information About the Intranet, Design, and Design Process

Please submit answers in a Microsoft Word document. Provide the following information:

Name of the organization using the intranet
Location of organization's headquarters
Name of the organization responsible for the design of the intranet (in-house, outside agency hired by the company, or a combination of the two)
Contact name, email address, mailing address and phone number (used to clarify any questions and notify winners)
Brief description (less than 100 words) of the organization using the intranet, and if applicable, a short description of the agency that worked on designing the intranet
Short description (300–500 words) of the intranet. Please include:
- Goal of the intranet
- How the intranet helps the organization and employees
- Basic features and description of user tasks the site supports
- Types of users the site supports and the kinds of work they do
- Approximate number of users the site supports and their geographic locations
Brief description of what makes your intranet particularly interesting or usable. Some questions to consider:
- What makes your intranet stand out?
- What makes you proud of your site?
A list of all screenshots and a brief description of each (see part 2 of submission below)

Part 2: Screenshots of the Intranet

Submit at least 6 and no more than 20 screenshots of the intranet. Include some of the following, as appropriate:

Homepage (required)
Features that help people be more productive or engaged
Example of how the intranet is the center of your organization’s digital workplace
Example of how employees' virtual or hybrid work is suppored
Example of how the intranet or digital workplace supports employees as they serve customers (service design)
Role-based (personalized) page, menu, or area (if available)
Examples of interesting, well-designed or innovative content or features (what is special about your site)
Information or CMS design that helps content editors and writers provide better content on the intranet
A few screenshots of the site before you made changes to improve user experience. (We will only score the current design, but knowing where it came from helps us understand its benefits.)

Screenshot instructions:

Take full-page screenshots: Show each scrolling screen in its entirety from top to bottom in a single image file. Do this for each screen you provide with your submission. If available, please also do this for mobile pages.
Crop images to show only the site (not the browser window and controls).
Save in PNG format.
Save each image as a separate file (NOT in a document or presentation).
Describe each image in the Information document (see Part 1). Tell us what’s notable about the image.
Do NOT put callouts or captions on the screenshot itself. Instead, place all descriptive text in the Information document.
If text in the screenshots is not in English, please also include in the Word document (not annotated in the screenshots, please), an explanation of what the screens say. A full translation is not necessary, but please do translate important features and elements, such as the top-level navigation and page section titles.)

Name each file using the following convention:

CompanyName_##_PageDescription_Version.png

## is a serial number incremented by 1 for each screenshot. All screenshots from the current site should end with the word, “live.”

For example, if your company name is ACME, and you submit a screenshot of the homepage that's live on the intranet, and two screenshots of previous versions of the homepage design, you would save these in three separate image files, and name them:

Acme_01_home_live.png
Acme_02_home_version1.png
Acme_03_home_version2.png

Submit only screenshots that can be shared in the report (and in our articles and presentations) if you win. Please replace any confidential information in the screenshots with fake text or blur sensitive sections.

Questions? Email [email protected]

Note: 2021 Winners were announced and the report was published in April, 2021, not January due to the COVID-19 entry deadline extension. Thank you for all of the wonderful entries!

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