We help our clients to design outstanding
digital products or services,
from a human perspective.

What we can do for our clients

Strategy and innovation

  • Define the problem and get everyone on board
  • Explore and develop innovative solutions
  • Make your vision tangible

Design and usability

  • Do tests, reviews and guerrilla interventions
  • Create the blueprint of your product or service
  • Prototype and specify your solution

Coaching and teaching

  • Coach your team in human centered design
  • Teach theory and practice of our methods
  • Share our knowledge to inspire you

Disciplines we work in

We are well-known for our long-standing mastery of Interaction Design and Information Architecture, while Product Design, Safety-Critical Design and Service Design are fairly new additions to our offering.

Namahn has completed hundreds of projects in a wide variety of functional domains, product types and technical architectures -- and with design briefs ranging from "Fix it now." to "Tell us about our future." The below cases demonstrate how Namahn contributes to its clients' success.

 

Our methods

The Namahn approach

The Namahn approach to Human-Centered Design is state-of-the-art. We apply best practices from our industry and are keen to find out how we can pragmatically apply new and upcoming techniques to our clients' challenges.

What we are working on

Designing a touch-screen user interface for postal mailing machines

Designing a color palette for control room applications

Putting together a project to develop a dynamic ride-sharing service

Running a panel discussion about innovation management

Designing the HMI for a gas-flow simulator

Testing and reviewing a digital dashboard for telecoms customers

Creating the visual design of a tax portal

Creating the functional inventory of an ERP tool

Coaching an international non-profit on their intranet revamp

Revamping an online community for worldwide knowledge sharing about technical development aid

05/10/2010 - 08:30 - 17:00

Agile development can be extremely effective in producing business-focussed solutions but special care must be taken to include user experience and usability through user-centred techniques. This course by Syntagm's William Hudson will show you how to integrate User-Centered Design with Agile methods.

06/10/2010 - 08:30 - 17:00

This course by Syntagm's William Hudson will teach you how to identify and improve static HTML designs through the use of Ajax and DHTML.

07/10/2010 - 08:30 - 17:00

This one-day course by William Hudson of Syntagm will give you a good understanding of card sorting, particularly applied to web navigation design and information architecture. The practical activities centre on the redesign of several existing web sites.

15/07/2010

For Patrick McGowan of IBM Lotus Software User Experience, simplicity and elegance of design solutions are what determines project success. In the pursuit of simplicity, what is the role of individual designers and design leaders in creating design friendly environments? How are project outcomes influenced by the tools and techniques a designer embraces? And, why can the success of a project depend on the degree to which designers adopt and leverage business vocabulary and concepts? McGowan shared his ideas and opinions in the 19th Namahn lecture - and podcast.

20/05/2010

In the May edition of 'Lokaal', the magazine of the Society of Flemish Cities and Communities, Namahn is featured in an article on Service Design.

11/05/2010

Namahn assisted the ‘Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs’ with the creation of a new information architecture for their web site through a series of collaborative workshops.

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