Rocket surgery made easy : the do-it-yourself guide to finding and fixing usability problems / Steve Krug ; [illustration, Mark Matcho].
"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...
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| 520 | |a "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"--Publisher's website. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Opening remarks: |t Call me Ishmael : how this book came to be, some disclaimers, and a bit of housekeeping. -- |t Finding usability problems: |g Chapter 1. |t You don't see any elephants around here, do you? : What do-it-yourself usability testing is, why it always works, and why so little of it gets done -- |g Chapter 2. |t I will now saw my [lovely] assistant in half : what a do-it-yourself test looks like -- |g Chapter 3. |t A morning a month, that's all we ask : a plan you can actually follow -- |g Chapter 4. |t What do you test, and when do you test it? : Why the hardest part is starting early enough -- |g Chapter 5. |t Recruit loosely and grade on a curve : who to test with and how to find them -- |g Chapter 6. |t Find some things for them to do : Picking tasks to test and writing scenarios for them -- |g Chapter 7. |t Some boring checklists : and why you should use them even if, like me, you don't really like checklists -- |g Chapter 8. |t Mind reading made easy : conducting the test session -- |g Chapter 9. |t Make it a spectator sport : getting everyone to watch and telling them what to look for -- |g Chapter 10. |t Fixing Usability Problems. Debriefing 101 : comparing notes and deciding what to fix -- |g Chapter 11. |t The least you can do : why doing less is often the best way to fix things -- |g Chapter 12. |t The usual suspects : some problems you're likely to find and how to think about fixing them -- |g Chapter 13. |t Making sure life actually improves : the art of playing nicely with others. -- |t The road ahead: |g Chapter 14. |t Teleportation made easy : remote testing: fast, cheap, and slightly out of control -- |g Chapter 15. |t Overachievers only : recommended reading -- |g Chapter 16 |t Happy trails/to you : a few final words of encouragement. -- |t Sample test script and consent form -- |g Acknowledgments -- |g Index. |
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