We’ve been playing with the mouse tracking application IOGraph to see what our mouses create while we work away as usual. The application tracks your mouse path, making a visual representation of every move you make. The images are cool looking and even more fun when you look at them while thinking about how the movements were effected by what programs you were working in, what type of project you were working on, where your palettes were placed, whether you tend to use key commands or prefer to use the menu etc. This image on Flicker shows the IOGraph image over the top of the desktop to illustrate this point.
Here are images taken after an hour and a half from each of the designers.
Here is Robin working on an eCommerce site in Photoshop:
And Greg researching on the internet:
And me working back and forth between Illustrator and InDesign:
