Re:Silverback — usability testing app for mac - released
by jamongkad on Friday July 25, 2008 @02:29AM
(#256369)
I disagree, personally I like the look of the website. It presents itself in a no nonsense manner. It states it's intention in a straight forward way. (that's a big plus for me as I hate websites that beat around the bush, just tell me what's the product it and what's it about!)
Apart from the cute gorilla, the side bar beside him states the features of the app. Features which I might find favorable or not. But still at the most it is stated clearly.
Re:Silverback — usability testing app for mac - released
by whalesalad on Friday July 25, 2008 @05:30AM
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Yes, the site does its job and works fine, but this came out of clearleft. These guys used to be allstars a few years ago, so although the site is decent, it doesn't live up to what I or other designers might expect to see from Clearleft. It's nothing at all spectacular at all, and it even comes from themselves. Not like this is some client project, it's as though they didn't care at all.
The app looks alright, but Screenflow (which they interestingly used to record their screencast of their app) does the same thing. We've recorded dozens of usability tests using it, and it's been great.
Silverback does, however, record mouseclicks and the various keystrokes though which is a nice thing to have. I like the interaction with the remote as well by the moderator.