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
  • Inspire you by sharing our knowledge

Disciplines we work in

We are well established as masters of Interaction Design and Information Architecture, with Safety-Critical Design and Service Design as more recent additions to our skillset.

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 cases below demonstrate how Namahn contributes to its clients' success.

Our methods

The Namahn approach

Our design approach starts from people, and keeps people at the center of our thinking. While we base our solutions on industry best practice, we continually evaluate new and developing techniques to see how they too can help us help our clients.

What we are working on

Developing a human-centered research and design roadmap for SMEs

Coaching a development team in HMI design and HCD

Training and coaching for the touchscreen redesign of a weaving machine console

Designing the commercial portal for a mobile operator using SharePoint 2010

Coaching an intranet team in redesigning an intranet information architecture

Developing a vision for the community experience of a major consumer electronics company

Developing a better support service for a leading manufacturer of electronic products for the consumer and professional markets

Coaching a team in designing a clinical lab ERP system

Defining and documenting a style guide for editors at an international provider of financial market infrastructure

Designing interface screens for an onboard computer for bus/tram drivers

Preparing a report on ergonomic considerations for the design of large signal boxes (railway operations)

Determining the scope for a virtual control room in a production environment

Observing and interviewing users in emergency response

Researching pro-active decision support for data-intensive environments with cases in manufacturing and emergency response

Researching a User Interface Modelling Language (UIDL) to simplify the UI design for multiple platforms

09/02/2012 - 18:00 - 07/06/2012 - 21:30

Collaborating with Namahn, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven offers a course on the design of man-machine interaction. This course is in Dutch and provides a broad view on the essential steps in the user-centered design process. It makes this process applicable for both hardware and software design.

14/03/2012 - 09:00 - 15/03/2012 - 17:00

In the future, the most valued digital products will be the ones that are integrated in a strong service offering. On 13-14 April 2012, you can take part in the first edition of the new Namahn master class on service design.

21/03/2012 - 09:00 - 22/03/2012 - 17:00

During two days, you gain insight into Namahn’s methods and techniques for designing, organising and managing excellent intranets, team sites and document repositories.

11/01/2012

Are you interested in information architecture, do you have an opinion about it, do you want to share a case history, would you like to meet other information architects, has working with information architects been an experience you'd like to talk about? Then join the Belgian IA community in Ghent on 11 February 2012. 

07/12/2011

CHI Belgium (formerly known as SIGCHI.be), the Belgian professional association for Human-Computer Interaction, is pleased to announce its very first Barcamp.

24/11/2011

In this evening conference, Joannes Vandermeulen will elaborate how the Human Centered Design (User eXperience/Usability) discipline will offer the highest possible added value to Agile Engineering.

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