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Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems
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It’s been known for years that usability testing can dramatically improve products. But with a typical price tag of $5,000 to $10,000 for a usability consultant to conduct each round of tests, it rarely happens.
In this how-to companion to Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Steve Krug spells out an approach to usability testing that anyone can easily apply to their own web site, application, or other product. (As he said in Don’t Make Me Think, “It’s not rocket surgery”.)
In this new book, Steve explains how to:
- Test any design, from a sketch on a napkin to a fully-functioning web site or application
- Keep your focus on finding the most important problems (because no one has the time or resources to fix them all)
- Fix the problems that you find, using his “The least you can do” approach
By paring the process of testing and fixing products down to its essentials (A morning a month, that’s all we ask ), Rocket Surgery makes it realistic for teams to test early and often, catching problems while it’s still easy to fix them. Rocket Surgery Made Easy adds demonstration videos to the proven mix of clear writing, before-and-after examples, witty illustrations, and practical advice that made Don’t Make Me Think so popular.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2182 in Books
- Published on: 2009-12-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 168 pages
Features
- ISBN13: 9780321657299
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Recipe for real-world success
When I designed the user experience for the first secure on-line shopping experience at Virtual Vineyards, I lived by a number of principles, two of which were: Quality is an Iterative Process, and The Results of Testing is Information, Not Quality – that demonstrable improvements in design and implementation come from what you choose to do with that information.
Steve Krug’s “Rocket Surgery Made Easy” hits the nail on the head (with a hammer) by making usability testing in the real world understandable, practical, and doable by any Web development team. Highly recommended.
Practical and Inspiring
Steve Krug, well known in the web design world for his book “Don’t Make me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability,” has achieved success again with “Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems.”
This book only takes a few hours to read but contains everything you need to know to test web pages, applications, forms, and anything else you might have designed that could benefit from a good review, which is pretty much everything. He covers the nuts-and-bolts of testing in a very clear, sequential way; he also manages to inspire you to actually do the testing.
This book is well designed, the author’s tone is warm and friendly, and he throws in a few great footnotes to entertain you as well. Highly recommended.
To the point and right on
It took just a few hours to devour this book. Steve has developed a practical process for anyone new to usability testing. Even though writing is “agonizing” to Steve, this is well written. Worth every penny.
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