Rocket surgery made easy : the do-it-yourself guide to finding and fixing usability problems

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krug, Steve, Author.

Series:

Voices That Matter

Voices that matter Rocket surgery made easy

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 161 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] New Riders 2010

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 a streamlined 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".) Using practical advice, plenty of illustrations, and his trademark humor, 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.

Contents:

1. You don't see any elephants around here, do you?

2. I will now saw my [lovely] assistant in half

3. A morning a month, that's all we ask

4. What do you test, and when do you test it?

5. Recruit loosely and grade on a curve

6. Find some things for them to do

7. Some boring checklists

8. Mind reading made easy

9. Make it a spectator sport

10. Debriefing 101

11. The lest you can do

12. The usual suspects

13. Making sure life actually improves

14. Teleportation made easy

15. Overachievers only

16. Happy trails/to you

Sample test script and consent form

Acknowledgements

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

9786612694141

9780321702845

0321702840

9781282694149

1282694146

9780321702838

0321702832

OCLC:

1027202490