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Usability Awards 2009: vote for your favourite! (05-Oct-2009)

Out of more than 200 submissions, a professional jury has shortlisted 10 websites for the first edition of the Belgian Usability Awards.
The shortlist in alphabetical order:

Ancienne Belgique
Belgium.be
Brussels Airlines
Bubblestick
Kudzu
Leuven
Plan België
Pukkelpop
UiT in Vlaanderen
Vlaamse Maatschappij voor Watervoorziening

It’s up to you now to decide which of these websites deserves to win the title of Belgium’s Most User-friendly Website.
Vote now!

Unisys homepage: can I click it? (02-Oct-2009)

The Unisys homepage looks nice. Unfortunately that’s only true at first glance. Go on, try to click it. I dare you.

Screen resolution statistics and tips (23-Sep-2009)

Which screen resolutions do people in Belgium use to surf the web? And what does that mean for your website’s layout?

The right message at the right time (21-Sep-2009)

What happened?
While uploading a picture on Flickr last week, I got the following message.

Of course I want to upgrade. Immediately. After all, I’ve already used a full 1% of my monthly limit.
Where do I sign up?
What’s wrong with this message?

Flickr shows me a message that isn’t relevant to me. I’ve only used 1% of my [...]

Browser statistics (17-Sep-2009)

Which browsers and operating systems do people use to surf your website in Belgium? Is Firefox catching up with Internet Explorer? Is Chrome as popular with housewives as it is with geeks? The market share of the different browsers in Belgium. Figures for September 2009.

No such thing as bad publicity? (11-Sep-2009)

Is there really no such thing as bad publicity? What about somebody else’s bad publicity shown on your website? Check out the example from Citroen.

Usability pot-pourri (10-Sep-2009)

2 articles about usability, a handy tool, a few quotes and a movie. A South Park spoof. Go on, you know you want to see it.

Here’s one for the internet museum (06-Sep-2009)

Paying hommage to the homepage of the Belgian town of Moerbeke-Waas, a treasure from a bygone era.

User-friendly error messages: 7 tips (28-Aug-2009)

A lot of websites make usability mistakes on their form pages. And that costs visitors. On a form page that’s extra painful because if you lose a visitor there, you loose a very valuable visitor. A visitor who’s willing to make the effort to get in touch with you or perhaps even to order something. 7 tips for user-friendly error messages.

Does your website need a manual? (21-Aug-2009)

No matter how long you thought about the concept of your website, no matter how great the idea looks on paper, no matter how unique or – God forbid – innovative you might think it is, if the average user doesn’t know what to do when he sees your website… start over.