Practically:

• I design and evaluate user interfaces for — mostly — online applications (web applications, stand-alone applications and mobile interfaces).
• I design – complex – information and navigation structures for (international, multilingual) websites and intranets.

I combine skills from computer science, usability and library sciences.

I am familiar with the full range of UCD techniques and processes:

• Field studies, contextual inquiry, ethnographic research.
• Modeling users, processes and tasks. Developing conceptual designs for displaying user needs and behavior.
• Documentation such as content inventory, sitemaps, wireframes, flow charts, functional specifications and style guides.
• Usability testing and expert review.

I am aware of:

• Industry standards and trends
• Webstandards and trends
• Software development processes

In the early years of my career I have worked as a technical writer. Hence my preference to communicate complex, technical information in plain language.

From 1993 to 2005, I was at Namahn, and helped the company mature from a beginning startup to the leading User Centered Design consultancy it is now.

At this moment I divide my time between conducting user surveys, providing UCD training for developers, and optimizing websites and web applications for a wide number of clients, varying from Belgian and European federal institutions, over well-established market leaders, to start ups.

Contact

• Geert Allegaert
• Avenue Milcamps 29, 1030 Brussels, Belgium
• e-mail: geert (at) allegaert (dot) com
• mobile: 32 (0)499 39 92 46
• skype ID: geertallegaert