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Silverback - for Usability!
Thursday, August 07, 2008
I heard about Silverback on Monday from Jen at Thinkgeek, and after testing it out by myself at home, I decided to bring my Macbook into the office today and show off how easy (and cheap) usability testing can be with Silverback - a wonderful new application from Clearleft.
Without going too deep into the details, after I made one single live recording of myself using the SAMHSA.gov website to find a specific grant and explained what this simple usability test could mean, the clients were so impressed that I was asked to make a "wish list" for this upcoming fiscal year in which we'd purchase a few MacBook's or iMac's, along with licenses for Silverback, and we'd finally get to open our own USABILITY LAB! Nice!
I've been pushing for having Mac's here at the office for a few years now, and thanks to Silverback and the sheer simplicity of it, it looks like that may finally be coming to fruition!
Anybody looking to get quality usability testing done on the cheap, Silverback is the way to go!
Technorati Tags: Usability, Silverback.
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