OmniGraphSketcher

Graph Sketcher was born in 2002, when I discovered that no available software let me quickly make simple labeled diagrams for economics problem sets. More than five years later, I had written over 20,000 lines of code, the program had been downloaded more than 40,000 times, and users had bought over $10,000 in licenses.

In October 2008, Graph Sketcher was acquired by the Omni Group when I joined the company as a software developer. In March 2009, we publicly released the first version of what is now OmniGraphSketcher.

News and reviews:

• Current website: OmniGraphSketcher
• The Omni Blog: New from the Omni Group: OmniGraphSketcher
• Macworld.com news: The Omni Group unveils OmniGraphSketcher 1.0
• Things That Are Brown review: Tolerate Only the Best
• Arstechnica review: Graph Sketcher app reborn as OmniGraphSketcher for Mac
• Macinscience review: OmniGraphSketcher 1.0 Beta
• The Holy Trinity of OSes review: OmniGraphSketcher
• Haystack Blog note: Graph Sketcher wins Best Note at CHI
• Andy Brown blog: OmniGraphSketcher Review
• MacUser product review: OmniGraphSketcher
• Statistics News blog: Cool Graphing Software

• Original website: www.graphsketcher.com
• Mac360 review: Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and Graphs On A Mac
• Casting Out Nines review: Where has this software been all my life?

Academic papers:

• Graph Sketcher: Extending Illustration to Quantitative Graphs. (with m.c. schraefel) Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2009.
• Interfaces for Creating Quantitative Conceptual Diagrams. Masters Thesis, 2008.
• Usability of a Pen Interface for Sketching Graphs. Multimodal Interfaces Final Project Report, 2007.
• Usability of an Interface for Sketching Graphs. Independent Study Final Report, 2005.