Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems

Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems

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. <br> <br>In this how-to companion to <i>Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability</i>, 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 <i>Don't Make Me Think</i>, "It's not rocket surgery".)<br> <br>Using practical advice, plenty of illustrations, and his trademark humor, Steve explains how to: <br> <ul> <li>Test any design, from a sketch on a napkin to a fully-functioning Web site or application</li> <li>Keep your focus on finding the most important problems (because no one has the time or resources to fix them all)</li> <li>Fix the problems that you find, using his "The least you can do" approach</li> </ul>By paring the process of testing and fixing products down to its essentials ("A morning a month, that's all we ask"), <i>Rocket Surgery</i> makes it realistic for teams to test early and often, catching problems while it's still easy to fix them. <i>Rocket Surgery Made Easy</i> adds demonstration videos to the proven mix of clear writing, before-and-after examples, witty illustrations, and practical advice that made <i>Don't Make Me Think</i> so popular.