Prizes
Receiving an award is always great. And I’m sure everyone agrees that nothing beats the honor of being voted the most user-friendly website of Belgium.
But we want to help you to make your website even better. That’s why we’re very, very happy to announce that some of the best companies in the field of usability, information architecture and conversion optimisation are giving away some incredible prizes to the winners and runners up.
We’ve got a total of 20.000 euro in our goodie bag so far. And there might be even more coming up…
Premium partners
UX Punk: 10 Websort & Plainframe accounts
WebSort enables you to conduct remote card sorting online. Create a study in minutes, send a link to participants all over the world, and use our expert tools to analyze the results – all through a simple web-based interface. Multi-lingual participant displays support over 8 languages.
PlainFrame provides remote usability testing for website navigation and app menus. Go beyond tree testing by creating a simple interactive navigation menu, setting up tasks for participants, and getting user feedback from all over the world. PlainFrame will automatically record every mouse movement and click, available for instant replay.
Loop11: 6 unmoderated, user testing packages
Loop11 lets you create your own online, unmoderated usability testing projects and delivers in real-time graphical reports comprising usability metrics allowing you to understand the user behaviour of your website so you can improve and optimise performance.
You can conduct benchmarking studies, competitive evaluations, true intent studies, compare new wireframes to an existing design, run A/B usability comparisons, or run a comprehensive usability evaluation. You can even test on the iPad and iPhone.
Optimal Workshop: 6 subscriptions to their Optimal Workshop Suite
Optimal Workshop is a suite of remote user testing tools: OptimalSort, Treejack and Chalkmark.
OptimalSort is the first tool that you’ll use in any web project. Use it to generate insights into the way your users categorise and label your content. When you’ve created one or more prototype information architectures, identify findability issues and compare the performance of each IA using Treejack. Finally, once your information architecture has been established and you’re ready to implement it, use Chalkmark to ensure that your visual and interaction design effectively communicates the information to users.
AGConsult: usability advice
AGConsult is a Belgium-based company of web usability experts and information architects. Our goal: websites that are easier and more fun to use for the end-users and higher conversion rates and profits for our clients.
We’ve been improving websites and intranets since 2001. The winners in each category will receive 1.000 euro worth of usability advice. (Prize valid for 12 months).
UserPlus: Accounts for UserPlus Advisor en UserPlus Tester
The UserPlus Advisor allows you to run a guideline based usability expert review on the first designs of your website. Evaluate the usability of your first designs according to international standards such as ISO. Follow up on the usability of your site throughout the whole development cycle.
The UserPlus Tester allows you to test the usability of your website with real users in real settings. Detailed clickpaths and user actions allow you to analyse the behaviour of your users in detail. You can easily improve the overall usability of your site based on real users feedback.
Usabilla: Accounts for their micro usability testing tool
Usabilla is a fast and fun tool to collect feedback in any stage of the design process. Set up a test in a few minutes and invite participants to share their opinion by adding points and notes on top of your webpages or sketches. 5500 User experience professionals and web analysts from all over the world use Usabilla to learn from real users with micro usability tests. Try it in 5 minutes, it’s free.
EnquêteOnline: 10 surveys
EnquêteOnline has developed a 2-question survey which allows you to easily identify who your visitors are and what their top tasks are.
Who are the people visiting your website? And what do they want?
2 questions that deliver an incredible insight in what your visitors want from you. This input allows you to adapt or finetune your content and information architecture to the needs of your visitors. That helps to make your website more user-friendly. And your business more profitable.
Uitgeverij Van Duuren: 10 copies of ‘Verleiden op internet’ by Aartjan van Erkel
‘Verleiden op internet’ by Aartjan van Erkel (who’s also in this year’s jury) is the first book about how to raise web conversion rates in Dutch. Aartjan shows that online behaviour is predictable. And that quite simple changes can sometimes make a big difference.
Loads of examples from Dutch and Flemish websites illustrate the techniques you can use to increase your site’s return on investment. This highly practical and no-nonsense work is a must-read for everybody in the web business.
Nominate your website now for a chance to win some of these prizes!
