Emakina Blog

IBBT (Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology) is an independent research institute founded by the Flemish government to stimulate ICT innovation. It brings together companies, authorities and non-profit organizations to join forces on research and development projects like Mobixx, the spin-off I recently wrote about.

Last week, our teams launched the brand new IBBT website. As good information design was central on this project, we organised several workshops in collaboration with the CUO (Center for Usability Research) in order to optimize the user experience towards the several IBBT target groups, including the disabled (the website is compliant with the “any surfer” label).

A joint collaboration Emakina / The Reference and our third major project with Drupal as Content Management System.

Krauthammer is a training, coaching and consulting company that helps “clients progress rapidly from thinking differently to acting differently to deliver substantial lasting impact.” For this new international client, we’ve built a new custom-made ColdFusion CMS that enables the administrators to manage the content in 11 different versions. Web design by Emakina, development by B. On The Net.

Want to surf on the Net and read your e-mails absolutely everywhere in Belgium? Just take a breath and inflate this website to see how Proximus can help you…

Yesterday at the Circle of Media organized by Microsoft Belgium, our colleague Thomas De Vos from The Reference had the opportunity to present one of our most interesting projects of this first quarter.

If you have a Microsoft Media Center in your living room, you’re now able to listen to the five RTBF radio stations (La Première, Musiq 3, PureFM, Classic 21 and VivaCité) in three different ways: live streaming, on demand (= RTBF podcasting for the couch potato) or “à la carte”. This third feature lets you subscribe to a range of generic threads gathering all the radio shows around a common theme : cinema, sports, economy, politics…

The interface has been designed exclusively for the Media Center remote control and is fully compatible with both Xp and Vista editions. Watch our video to discover how it looks like :

With more than 100.000 classifieds in its database, Immoweb (Produpress group) is the biggest property portal on the Belgian market. You can now enjoy a more user-friendly interface that means searching for your next house or apartment is even easier than before. Our team also carried out an in-depth overhaul of the “My Immoweb” feature used by more than 67.000 members. This revamping is the result of close collaboration between Emakina (design) and B. On The Net (development), the “historic” web agency of Immoweb.

The Wrangler Spring Summer collection is now available in clothing stores throughout Europe. Check it out on: http://eu.wrangler.com.

Over the past two months we have been working hard to improve the usability on Swiftcommunity.net, the Enterprise 2.0 projet we manage for Swift at a worldwide level. Among the new features to highlight are:

• Keep up to date with recent activity in your communities (automatic alerts on a weekly or daily basis)
• Picture Re-sizing & Cropping
• Polling
• Edit Uploaded Documents
• New look for Documents, Blog, Forums