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A mortgage choice wizard, built at InterPlein in 1999.

Choosing a mortgage means holding a dozen variables in your head at once and understanding how they pull against each other. A wizard takes that apart: one question at a time, in an order that makes sense, with help available where people actually get stuck. What comes out the far end is a recommendation someone can act on.

Design by Maaike de Laat. Dirk was involved from beginning to end on the build, as on most of the sites there: the programming and the modules underneath.

To get hold of the choices the wizard had to make, he drew the whole thing as a diagram in Excel and worked from a printout of about thirty pages. It came out well. The site was never launched.