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Loading... Rocket surgery made easy : the do-it-yourself guide to finding and fixing usability problems (edition 2010)by Steve KrugI finished this one a while ago, and kept forgetting to mark it as Read! Oops. Anyways, this is a great book about low cost Usability Testing. This book was recommended to me as part of my internship with Hennepin County. It's a great, quick read about Usability testing and why companies should do some low cost, three people testing once a month. A definite recommended read for people interested in Usability testing as part of their careers. Maybe if Steve Kruger updates his book with a mobile testing section, I'll check it out again and update this book to a five! In a past life (or, about 3 jobs ago) I read Don’t Make Me Think, and I loved its casual and humorous style. So when I needed to read up on usability testing, I knew Steve Krug wouldn’t let me down. Rocket Surgery has that same easy-going tone, and he breaks down usability testing into easy steps. Also very helpful are the demo and sample scripts available on the companion web site. Before I started, I was daunted by the thought of usability testing, and was fairly sure I would screw it up (or at least, the results wouldn’t be useful at all). Now, I feel a lot more comfortable about conducting my own initial tests in a couple of weeks. I won’t be following Krug’s path exactly, but he’s given me some good landmarks. A highly usable book written by a knowledgeable and entertaining author. Offers concrete and practical suggestions for approaching integration of regular usability testing into the website development process. This, of course, assumes that your organization already has a systematic process for developing its website; perhaps a safe assumption in the corporate environments in which Krug typically works. Still, the book offers useful insights and is a quick and easy read. It fulfills its purpose of serving as a complement to Don't Make Me Think very nicely. Great primer to conducting usability testing on websites, especially if you haven't done it before. Krug outlines the entire process from start to finish, and not just the test itself. Recommended that you read his first book, Don't Make Me Think, first. It's a simple and painless introduction to usability concepts. A well written, neat and hands-on beginner's guide to qualitative usability testing. Highly recommended by this particular professional. (I've written a real review > http://relaterat.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/recension-rocket-surgery-made-easy-av-..., but it's Swedish language only.) |
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