My roles:
- Ergodesigner
- Lead webdesigner / Design consultant |
Agencies:
Accenture / DAD (Digital Age Design) / CSC / Belgacom |
Description:
For the first Belgian portal, at that time the biggest and most expensive web project in Belgian history, I became part of the team of consultancy agency Accenture in Brussels for over half a year. I worked in duo with Jean-Marc Rodelet, the Usability Expert and former Director of the Design Department of D.A.D. (a few years before they became LBi Belgium). Our task was to determine the site's ergonomy (logic of the navigation, wireframing preliminary page lay-outs, etc...). To achieve the best results possible I often accompanied Jean-Marc to work meetings with consultancy teams at Accenture and with representatives of different government cabinets. In a second phase my collaboration with Jean-Marc on usabilty and ergonomy resulted in proto versions of the designs (or "pumped up" wireframes, if you like) to serve as guides during the actual design phase later on.
After a design contest with two other designer from DAD, I was eventually also selected to do the design phase itself. At that point my role became that of Lead Webdesigner with the task of creating a look & feel that could by concensus be accepted by all the decision takers. Since there were many and they often had conflicting ideas and desires, the main challenge was to come up with decent designs that were "somewhere in the middle".
Because of the fruitful collaboration within the team of Accenture I was later also asked to design additional websites for the Belgian Government, such as the website for the 2004 Elections, the Tax-On-Web website for the Ministry of Finance and the website for the launch of the Belgian eID-cards (and the design for the print on the actual eID-cards themselves) |
Used software and motivation:
Because of the many iterations and frequent change requests, Fireworks was the fastest and really also the only viable option to get everything done in time. It's on huge projects like this that the intuitive interface and the time-saving workflow offers the biggest benefits. |
