Usability

Last week, the winners of the first Belgian Usability Awards were announced. The event was organized by usability experts AGConsult. There were 3 categories:

• Belgium’s most user-friendly website (overall winner) - Public voting
• Most user-friendly government or non-profit website - Jury voting
• Most user-friendly corporate or commercial website - Jury voting

Winners in each of those categories were Brussels Airlines, Plan België and Ancienne Belgique.

Runner up for the public voting price and the jury price in the category "non-profit" was UiT in Vlaanderen, a Drupal based event website.

I've already written about this site a few times.
You can find out how this site was build via my presentation slides of my talk on FOSDEM 2009.

AGConsult, the brilliant usability experts that worked on Drupal website UiT in Vlaanderen presented a case study on their experiences today on the Sigchi Belgium fall conference. I was the Drupal lead developer for this project and have posted a few times about this project on this blog.

Everyone interested in usability should have a look at this short presentation. You will notice that simple enhancements can make a huge difference. The site is a big hit! I am certain the great care for usability (and the choice for Drupal ;)) are some of the main reasons for this success.

Drupal 7 also has had high focus on usability. I'm sure it'll pay off here too.

Sit back and enjoy the show!