User Experience
The client
The City of Antwerp opts for a thorough digital service tailored to its inhabitants, companies, visitors, students, … Digipolis Antwerp, the IT partner of the city, works this challenge every day. They assist their colleagues at the City, OCMW, Zorgbedrijf and the police, realize ICT projects and provide a qualitative and stable support for operational applications and infrastructure.
The goal
What we did
End user & stakeholder workshops
Our approach
A number of workshops with users and stakeholders were organised. During the user workshops, parents told us why they visit the website Antwerpen.be, what information they expected and how they wanted this information. The stakeholders gave us insight into their organisation and their offer for parents and children and shared their experiences with these users.
2 user workshops with parents of children between 3 and 24 years
1 user workshop with expectant parents or people with a desire to have children and parents of children between 0 and 3 years old
5 stakeholder workshops with city services: Youth and Culture, Houses of the Child, Education, Childcare and Sport
The results
Parents and their children visit Antwerpen.be to get to know the offer, to register, to evaluate and to contact the city services.
Both users and stakeholders agreed that Antwerpen.be should show the full range and not just the range of activities organised by the city. E.g. for education, this means that you want an overview of government-provided education, subsidised public schools (by provinces and municipalities) and subsidised free schools…
A post-it exercise divided the global offer for parents and children in 7 main themes:
Pregnancy & birth
Health & wellbeing
Child-raising
Childcare
Education
Leisure
Administration
The current touchpoints between parents and the city of Antwerp are often of an administrative and practical nature, such as the renewal of an identity card, the search for childcare or the opening times of the swimming pool… But, besides searching for specific things, parents also want to discover new things or activities.