Infomaki 0.1 Goes Open Source
May 13th, 2009
Infomaki is a tool for gathering early user feedback based on displaying individual screens and asking simple questions. Typically, the questions look something like “where would if click if…” with the mouse clicks being recorded and eventually summed up and displayed as heat maps. Infomaki has been developed by the people over at NYPL Labs, and just a few days ago finally went open source (requires Ruby on Rails 2.2+). One interesting thing about this software is how flexible it is to the participants in terms of the duration of the evaluation. Since each screen shown is basically a independent evaluation of its own, it makes it possible for users to choose how long they wish to participate – being able to stop at any time. Thumbs up for going open source! :)
Download it from here.
Credits: Michael Lascarides – NYPL
5 Responses to “Infomaki 0.1 Goes Open Source”
May 13th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Awesome example of open source design. This is going to be an awesome tool for testing proof of concept features.
May 14th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Very nice tool, that's great it's going Open Source. It makes me wanna learn Ruby too.
May 18th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Really like this tool. It should provide a quick way to gather feedback and what i like the most is, that this makes usability work visible to the customer.
Does anybody know if there ist something similar in PHP instead of Ruby?
May 19th, 2009 at 7:37 am
I don't think so mate. I guess we PHP dudes will have to port it…
July 15th, 2009 at 9:13 am
We recently used Infomaki to conduct usability testing with one of our clients, with excellent results. You may be interested in reading about our experiences here:
http://www.volkside.com/2009/07/usability-test-wi…
Big thanks to NYPL Labs for releasing this great tool as open source!