Eyetracking and forms. Again.

Posted on 07/03/2006 by admin

Ok. I’m back again with a new lab setup for my next UXmatters article on eyetracking. This is going to be number 2 on 3 on forms usability, I’m going to evaluate the best possible form label placement.

As I already said in my previous article,

Forms are the primary – often the only – way users have of sending data to Web sites.

that’s why we (me and Pabini, the UXmatters founder and Editor in Chief) think that eyetracking tests (and reports) on forms could be so useful.

I’m going to use Luke Wroblewski‘s article on Web application form design as a starting point for my Eyetracking lab setup and task prep. I’ve been in touch with Luke (thankyou very much) during the last few days in order to have the test pages and the tasks fine tuned by the article author; I’ll start tomorrow with the forms design and have the eye tracking lab prepared by Magda Giacintucci from CT|IMR.

Mobup on tour: first speech

Posted on 24/02/2006 by admin

Yesterday we were hosted by the wonderful people at the Milan Java User Group: the seminar room at the Mac shop was really crowded and I was pleased to see a couple of known faces among the public.

Our slides (available online) on the strategy, user experience and technical aspects on Mobup raised a lot of interest (we mobupped some photos while speaking), it’s always cool speaking to smart programmers who make smart questions and suggestion.

We’ve also been so lucky to be invited in another couple of Italian Java events (one of those is really HUGE), more on this in the time coming.