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 by Steve Krug is essentially a companion book to his first, extremely successful book on usability, "Don't Make Me Think." The previous book was all about design, but this new book is all about testing.

The book is divided into two sections. The first section is titled "Finding Usability Issues." It's all about the usability test: how to organize one, recruit testers, and finally do one. The second section, "Fixing Usability Issues," discusses debriefing after the test and what your next steps should be, that is what you should do with the knowledge you've gathered. Krug briefly discusses remote testing at the end of the book and provides a reading list.

One of the book's best features is the extensive resources provided by the author for conducting usability studies. There is, for example, a full script to follow with your test participants, a script to follow with the observers, a brief form for each of them to fill out, and a checklist to go through before and after the test.

In this new book, Steve teaches how to test any design, from a napkin sketch to a fully functional website or application, how to retain your focus on uncovering the most significant problems, and how to address the problems you find using his "The least you can do" method.

Rocket Surgery reduces the process of testing and resolving goods to its essentials, allowing teams to test early and frequently, discovering problems while they are still simple to fix. Rocket Surgery Made Easy expands on the tried-and-true formula of plain writing, before-and-after examples, funny visuals, and practical counsel that made Don't Make Me Think so successful.

Author: Steve Krug

Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Surgery-Made-Easy-Yourself/dp/0321657292