http://www.stevelongdo.com/articles/tag/usability en-us 40 I must confess I'd heard the term <b>"heat map"</b> in conjunction with user interaction a while ago, but never bothered to look into them in more detail. Usability pioneer <a href="http://www.useit.com/jakob/">Jakob Nielsen</a> has <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html">examples and a definiton in this article</a>.<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.useit.com/jakob/">Nielsen's</a> heat maps track human eye movement across a web page. Today I ran across <a href="http://blog.corunet.com/english/the-definitive-heatmap">this magnificent posting</a>. It demonstrates a <b>"heat map"</b>, and also provides MIT licensed open source code to generate them. These <b>"heat maps"</b> are actually <b>"click maps"</b>, but in some ways these are even more relevant than where a web site visitor looks. Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:44:00 +0000 urn:uuid:9ac96d26-59a0-484d-ba67-01a62c79fed1 Steve Longdo http://www.stevelongdo.com/articles/2006/08/16/heat-maps-and-usability usability design