Article Idea:
DISCUSSION: Heatmap ... usability tools
suggested by nizam uddin on 2006/05/30
Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question.
Hi I’m a 24 years old, aspiring IA, QA and usability impostor (Information Systems graduate and eLearning content/application specification and QA); I’m trying to gather useful tools on analysing website usage, not server statistics; more usability related.
Do people keep the mouse cursor on the left or right hand side? What about content density? Where the best place to position Google is adds (for maxim clicks and minimal readability distraction), and what is this ‘F’ factor? And so on.
http://blog.eyetools.net/eyetools_research/2005/02/eyetra…
The truth is I’m learning I have ideas and have read countless literature, but I need to do the research myself to understand better. So where does one get their hands on heat map tools like eyetoys? But on a shoe string budget; better yet free (because I can’t afford corporate rates or a fancy usability studio, after all I’m learning my trade).
I have seen registered for crazyegg http://crazyegg.com/ ; but can’t wait. I would really appreciate if someone could shed some light of tools available (that does not break the bank or is free) that can help us analysis website usage patterns or related usability tools.
Thanks
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Dan Zambonini
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Posted 2006/06/08 @ 11:44AM with
Hi,
We’ve just launched clickdensity, which provides the “click heat map” functionality, amongst other things (for a monthly subscription fee).
It only launched a couple of days ago, so we don’t yet have a demo or trial available, but we intend on making both of these (a full demo and a free trial) available within the next week or so. I hope it can deliver some of what you are looking for.
Thanks very much,
Dan
Chris Roast
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Posted 2006/06/14 @ 12:56PM with
We are currently using a tool designed to analyse the visual design of websites. The tool is not focused upon usage data but on whether or not the planned visual consistency of a site matches what users actually encounter. For a brief introduction have a look at www.shu.ac.uk/business/gist.
I hope to write an article about it one day!