Guerrilla usability testing

I watched today the Real Time Design presentation of Leisa Reichelt & Matt Balara at the Next 08 conference in Hamburg. They found a super cheap and great tool for doing guerrilla usability testing, it is called Silverback.


next08: Real Time Design from Matt Balara on Vimeo.

Silverback captures the screen activities of the user (even with a small animation for mouse clicks) and the participants reactions via the build in iSight camera of your mac. Together with voice recording this turns every Mac into a mobile research facility. You can save participant sessions separately and add further notes. At the end you get a Quicktime movie of each participant that shows both the screen activity and the user reaction (video and audio) in one clip.

Silverback has a 30 days trial periode, afterwards you can purchase a license for just $ 49,95 (10% of all profits go to save to gorillas). It’s a great tool for ad hoc research and way much more.

15. October 2008 von Stefan
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