Silverback - Usability evaluating for the Rest of Us
July 28, 2008 · Print This Article
If you’re a website or software developer, soon after surely you’ve heard of usability testing before. To many web developers, “usability testing” is one of those buzz words that clients and developers love to use, and something that is very rarely actually done.
The reason? Usability evaluating requires you setup a lab of computers (or at least one) with specialized software that records the users actions and clicks on the computer, and potentially their expressions and eye movement through the use of a camera. Usability software can be very expensive and complex.
Until now.
Clearleft just released Silverback, a simple usability analyzing software that’s only $49.95. And it comes with a full-featured 30-day trial.
Silverback sits in the background, capturing the user’s screen activity in the style of a Quicktime video, and plus records audio and video from your Mac’s iSight camera (or any webcam). The finished pop quiz can be customized and output as full-resolution Quicktime movie or saved down to a smaller file size suitable for e mail or web use.
Orginal post by Brandon Eley
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