1 Statoil

"It was valuable to work with MTO-LAB"

Statoil, the department IT BKS SAP basis held a 4-hour seminar about usability and how to apply it in everyday practice. The seminar was being structured partly as a lecture and partly as a workshop.

The goal was to gain understanding of the term usability or "use-quality", and to uncover the benefits of taking the terms into practical use. We disclosed obstacles along the way, and were surprised to find that our own attitudes and lack of knowledge were key issues.

The seminar with MTO-LAB was successful, and we received good feedback from the particiants. It was valuable to work with MTO-LAB.

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2 University of Stavanger

MTO-LAB teaches the module "Man and Machine" at the University of Stavanger.

Aim: To enable the students to contemplate human factors carefully when developing software.

Content: How do we make good user interfaces? What is usability? Human software. How does user interfaces influence users? Methods for evaluating designs. Why indeed care about the users? What are the obstacles of widespread adoption of software? What are the important user aspects of websites? How do we design for accessability? Practical evaluation of IT tools and websites. Expert-based testing and user-based testing: possibillities and limits.

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3 Lærdal Medical

Lærdal Medical gave MTO-LAB the task to perform a evaluation of the design sketches of a new e-shop/ e-commerce website.

MTO-LAB made an overall appraisal of the skethes within the framework and topic of user-experience.

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4 Kolumbus

Kolumbus' website har a lot of potential users. It is therefore crucial for the site to be perceived as useful and practical. MTO-LAB performed an analysis of the user interface focussing on user-experience.

We appraised the website with regard to known guidellines and designstandards, based on theory developed by a host of international scholars, as well as own research in Rogalandsforskning.

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10 eWIRE

eWIRE is the Danish version of Paypal.com - a service enabling citizens to transfer money between each other with creditcards.

In 2004 eWIRE was planning a redesign, centred around user experience. Interfazer took the challenge to improve the usability and simplicity of the service, whilst also providing a better overview and a more contemporary structure, generating a better user experience.

The new eWIRE is expected to be online by early 2006. The system is now a lot more goal-oriented and task-based with a clear focus and overview.

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11 Boltinggaard Gods

Boltinggaard Gods at Ringe, Fyn, is Denmarks largest producer of ecological sheepsmilk.

In 2005 it was decided to construct a new storytelling website, about their unique and innovative agricultural concepts.

September 2005 the website was launched and has been well visited. It even got noticed by Fyens Stiftstidende, the areas newspaper. In january 2006 it got a small graphical enhancement and some Flash elements to boast the user-experience.

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