Cogapp Usability MOT competition winner Announced

Following on from its World Usability Day competition, Cogapp, the digital media and user experience company, has announced Norwood as the winners of its third sector competition. The judges included Dr Graham McAllister, senior lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Sussex and Pete Gale, head of user experience at Cogapp.

Pete Gale, head of user experience at Cogapp said: “We had a significant response to our competition, which clearly shows the need amongst charities for a well conceived and user-friendly website. It was a tough decision, but we ultimately selected Norwood because they made the strongest case for our usability consultancy. They have some incredible content and stories to tell, but they also need to reach a wide group of people and families with different needs. Making this information easier to access and navigate will make a big difference to their fundraising and communication efforts.”

Assaf Admoni, Norwood’s director of commercial services, said: “Norwood is honoured to receive this prize. Our online presence, which spans five websites, is crucial to our ability to effectively reach our stakeholders. As a charity, we offer life-changing support each year to thousands of people with learning disabilities and children and families in need. But finding the best way of communicating the incredible opportunities that exist within our large portfolio of services is always a challenge.

“This prize will provide us with a valuable opportunity to enhance our sites both for our service users and supporters and ultimately benefit those that need it most.”

Norwood’s prize is a website usability MOT from Cogapp which includes four one-on-one in-depth user testing sessions followed by a usability workshop and the development of a usability action plan on how to improve their website’s effectiveness.

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