silverorange | building powerful web-based systems: I first heard about silverorange when they won the “Best Intranet of 2001” award from the Nielsen-Norman Group (Jakob Nielsen’s outfit). At that time, I thought they were purely Web design.
It looks like that they’ve taken to selling (and hosting) their award-winning intranet software. It’s a stunning piece of work, both functionally and visually. Here are the screenshots and you can lounge around a demo version.
Years ago, when I was looking for an apartment, I knew I found the right one because once I walked into it, I just didn’t want to leave. I got that same feeling the same way about their intranet demo. Purely, utterly intuitive. I’d never been there before, but I just knew what to do.
Lately, I've struck upon a new benchmark for usability: the extent to which the interface disappears. Let me explain -- My wife drives a Honda Odyssey minivan. This is the Swiss Army Knife of minivans. It's set-up perfectly, to the point where I've often said, "If you need…
