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Benchmark
tests for Bridgestone and ExtraFilm (21 March, 2005)
A thorough renewal of their web sites meant the European headquarters of both
tyre manufacturer Bridgestone and digital print service ExtraFilm called on
AGConsult for a benchmark test. |
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Expert
advice for ABN AMRO, AG.Plastics and the King Baudoin Foundation
(21 March, 2005)
More and more companies are finding their way to AGConsult
for expert usability consulting. At
the start of a project but also for a mid-way evaluation. |
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AGConsult
assists Department of Health with preparations new site (14
March, 2005)
In June 2005 the new site of the Department of Health will be
online. To make sure the site's content matches the new and improved structure
and graphics, 130 people from the department took an AGConsult course on
'Writing for the Web'. |
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Kluwer publishers' online shop tested
by AGConsult (18 January, 2005)
Kluwer publishers, a subdivision of Wolters Kluwer Belgium, had its recently
renewed web shop tested by AGConsult. |
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AGConsult improves the Marlink intranet (1 December, 2004)
Marlink, a daughter company of Norwegian telecom giant Telenor and
specialized in satellite communication on land and at sea, has hired
AGConsult to evaluate and improve the company's intranet structure. |
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Belgian Web Usability Report 2004
(14 October, 2004)
In 2002, AGConsult's Belgian Web Usability study showed that the majority of
Belgian web sites was not very user-friendly. The follow-up research in 2004 reveals that during these two years, Belgian
web sites have indeed become more user-friendly. But there's still
a long way to go...
The Belgian Web Usability Report 2004 is only
available in Dutch.
Read the English press release or have a look
at the Dutch version of the report. |
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Daikin Europe engages AGConsult for a third time (2 September, 2004)
After successful usability assignments for Daikin Europe's public web sites and
extranet, the air-conditioning company has hired AGConsult for the testing and
reworking of the commercial end-user literature. |
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King Baudouin Foundation asks AGConsult to chart visitor behaviour (15
August, 2004)
For the duration of one year AGConsult will monitor and analyse the visitor
behaviour on the site of the King Baudouin Foundation. Earlier, Renault and OKI
Europe chose AGConsult for this service. |
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Multi-media
software Microsoft tested by AGConsult (12 May, 2004)
Usability Sciences Corporation, a renowned American usability company, asked the
assistance of AGConsult for the user tests of the Dutch version of Microsoft's
new multi-media software, the Windows XP Media Center. |
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AGConsult launches new service: Visitor behaviour analysis (12 May, 2004)
Which paths do users follow on your site? Where do your most valuable visitors
come from? Our latest service, a detailed quantitative analysis of the visitor
behaviour on your web site, will answer these and other questions. |
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Unisys
Consulting calls on AGConsult for new Flemish cultural
site (11 March, 2004)
Cultuurnet Vlaanderen has awarded the building of a new cultural site to Unisys
Consulting (formerly KPMG Consultants), who called on AGConsult for usability
guidance of the project. Cultuurwijzer, the new cultural web site of the Flemish
Community, will offer access to all cultural events Flanders and Brussels have
to offer. |
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Renault sizes up the
competition with AGConsult's Benchmark Test (13 February, 2004)
To know how their site compares to those of their competitors' Renault Belgium
and communications agency Lowe Direct Creations asked AGConsult to carry out a
Benchmark Test. It showed Renault the strengths and weaknesses of it's own site
and those of their competitors and offered them an ideal starting point for
redesigning the site. |
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New publication: 200 usability tips
for corporate and commercial sites (12 November, 2003)
200 practical tips based on research and the observation of real users. All tips
deal with frequently occurring problems on small and large corporate and
commercial web sites. The tips are based on what users perceive as elements that
stand in the way of a positive user experience. |
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Best Business Site 2003 designed by AGConsult (3 November, 2003)
The brand new site of the Brussels Enterprise Agency was elected Best Business
Site of 2003 on the recent Night of the Internet. AGConsult was responsible for
the information architecture and layout structure of the site. |
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BEA and BIPT turn to AGConsult for
new information structure (15 September, 2003)
An information structure that makes sense to users and an attractive interface,
that's what both the Brussels Enterprise Agency (BEA) and the Belgian Institute
for Postal Services and Telecommunication (BIPT) were looking for. Naturally,
they turned to AGConsult for advice. |
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Usability of payroll-processing companies (4 June, 2003)
When HRM Net asked AGConsult to test the usability of the web
sites of Belgium's ten most important payroll-processing companies,
we didn't hesitate to cooperate. We tested the sites of Acerta,
ADMB, Groep S, HDP, Partena, SD Worx, Seco-M, Securex, Sofim and
Union des Classes Moyennes using our twenty
basic usability criteria. The 13 page report (available only in
Dutch) contains general
conclusions on the accessibility, ease of use, user experience and
practical value of the sites and a short evaluation of every site's
usability strengths and weaknesses illustrated with screenshots.
Download the report in Dutch for free (pdf - 2MB).
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Thanks to our Qfor quality label you only pay half price (5 March, 2003)
From now on, companies with an operational seat in Flanders only pay
half price for our seminars and services. The Flemish government
pays the other half. |
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Daikin Europe
calls on AGConsult to rework European web sites (23
January, 2003)
Air-conditioning giant Daikin Europe is working together with
AGConsult to improve the usability of their European web sites and
create a greater sense of uniformity. |
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Users wanted for usability tests
(4 December, 2002)
Both for our general usability research and the usability testing
of specific sites AGConsult often works with 'regular' users.
Would you like to participate in a usability test? |
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Belgian local government sites lacking in usability (7
November, 2002)
AGConsult has evaluated the usability of the official sites of 55
Belgian cities and towns. 85% of the tested sites fail on 14 or
more of the 20 basic usability criteria. Compared to the results
of our earlier research about the usability of Belgian sites in
general, the average local government site is less user-friendly
than the average commercial site.
Due to the regional and language-specific nature of the research,
our 200 tips for local government sites are only available in
Dutch and French.
Read the Dutch
or French
press release for more information. |
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New guidelines: "Writing for the web" (5 November,
2002)
No matter how user-friendly your site is, if the texts on your
site aren't well-written and inviting to read, chances are users
won't like your site very much. Our guidelines in "Writing
for the web" show you how to write and adapt texts for online
use. Only available in Dutch
and French.
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Is the quality of your
site important to you? (18 September, 2002)
Thanks to AGConsult's new 'Mystery Surfing'-service it is possible
to have your site's user-friendliness checked on a regular basis
and to find out about usability problems before users point them
out to you.
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Federal civil servants
prepared for e-government (20 August, 2002)
The federal government has asked AGConsult to provide a series of
seminars about online usability and writing for the Web. The first
twenty sessions were booked solid within just two weeks. |
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Kluwer Opleidingen and AGConsult
expand their joint seminar offer (8 August, 2002)
Starting in autumn 2002, Kluwer Opleidingen will include three workshops
of AGConsult in it's seminar calendar. The workshops focus on
designing transparant information structures and optimising the
user-friendliness of web sites. |
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Government agencies call on AGConsult as
link to web builder (15 July, 2002)
Several government agencies (Vlaamse Milieumaatschappij, Kinderrechtencommissariaat
and DAV) call on AGConsult to help facilitate the communication
with their web agencies during the development of their new sites. |
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AGConsult has a very positive first six months (3 July, 2002)
With hundreds of reports sold, dozens of assignments for small and
large corporations and collaboration agreements with Kluwer Opleidingen
and the federal government for its workshops and trainings, AGConsult's
first six months can be considered very successful. |
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User tests for SCOOT (18 June, 2002)
SCOOT has asked AGConsult to test the usability of its search
feature through a series of user tests. |
