Today the Nielsen Norman Group released the winners and accompanying report for their latest intranet design competition. We’re glad to say that the report, the Ten Best Government and Public Sector Intranet Designs, features a silverorange designed and built intranet.

The winning intranet belongs to IRAP (National Research Council’s Industrial Research Assistance Program). IRAP came to us after having read of our first intranet recognition in 2001. Since then we’ve worked with them to develop and fine tune a custom intranet based on the silverorange intranet platform (v3.0). We’re very pleased to see that project get such high recognition. Congratulations to the development team here at silverorange and to the absolutely fine folks we work with at IRAP.

As many of you know, this is the third time the silverorange intranet has been honoured by the Neilsen Norman Group. In 2001 we were award the best intranet. In 2003 we were given an honourable mention for a redesign of a previously winning intranet. And now this:

“The silverorange intranet has proven to be an excellent-looking and very simple-to-use system. Designs from this company have made the top ten in not one, but two of our Nielsen Norman Group Intranet Design Annuals.” - Jakob Nielsen

We built the first version of the tool in 2000 to talk amongst ourselves. We would never have thought that four years later hundreds, if not thousands, of people would use it on a daily basis. Amazing. Congratulations once again to all involved and a sincere thank you to the Nielsen Norman Group.