Greet Jans

Current

• Information architect/Designer at Truvo

Past

• Information architect at Duval Guillaume
• Usability designer at CUO (K.U.Leuven)

Education

• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Hogeschool Antwerpen

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Greet Jans’s Summary

Greet Jans’s Specialties:

information architecture, interaction design, user experience, usability testing

Greet Jans’s Experience

• Information architect/Designer

  Truvo

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  August 2009 — Present (5 months)

• Information architect

  Duval Guillaume

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  May 2008 — July 2009 (1 year 3 months)

  Being part of the User Experience team, I design websites and web applications, such as widgets, games, etc. Managing each project from concept to final product by brainstorming to define a concept, set-up of (high-level & detailed) site structure, defining personas and their scenarios, creating wireframes, making use cases (based on user stories & wireframes), working closely together with the designers & developers and testing.

• Usability designer

  CUO (K.U.Leuven)

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  October 2005 — May 2008 (2 years 8 months)

  User Centered Design approach (accessibility, functionality, like ability, playability, sociability and/or usability) of various projects of ICT systems (web, mobile and interactive television).
  Combination of (1) research, (2) design & (3) user testing.
  (1) Doing research: assessing data from multiple sources, synthesizing, and developing strategies for the project;
  (2) Creating user-centered designs: developing conceptual diagrams, wireframes, interaction flows, user interfaces and prototypes with an emphasis on user goals, experience & guidelines and standards;
  (3) Planning and conducting usability testing.

Greet Jans’s Education

• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

  Post Academic course, Usability design , 2005 — 2006

• Hogeschool Antwerpen

  Product development , Design , 2000 — 2005

  Approach: Innovating, multidisciplinairy approach, creation, design methodology, usability, materials, marketing, economics

Additional Information

Greet Jans’s Websites:

• My Company

Greet Jans’s Groups:

•    Interaction Design Association
•    UX Professionals
•    Duval Guillaume
•    IBBT (Belgium)
•    Information Architecture Institute (IAI)
•    User Experience
•    DiGRA Flanders
•    UX Design / Information Architecture
•    CITIZEN MEDIA - social change
•    JobCorner
•    User Experience Professionals

Greet Jans’s Honors:

Best Paper Award at WBC 2007; Jans, G. & Calvi, L. (2007). How to develop a mobile 2.0 application. Proceedings of IADIS International Conference Web-based Communities (pp. 217-224). Salamanca, Spain.

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