December 2008 Blog Posts (2)

The online games I play have both released major updates. These exciting and long-anticipated events have been tracked regularly by game reviewers and fans alike. I've been reading for weeks before and since the releases about these expansions in forums, release notes, reviews, and developer diaries.



Developer diaries are particularly interesting artifacts. A developer diary discusses the motivation, goals, and/or design thinking that went into a particular aspect of product design.… Continue

OptimalWorkshop has a product in beta called Chalkmark which is used to track where people click on a design prototype.



In Chalkmark, you upload images of interfaces and write a prompt for users to click on the interface to accomplish some task. Chalkmark records the clicks and shows you them in a report that looks similar to what you see with eyetracking heatmaps.



The cool thing about this is that you… Continue