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The Krug Method: Who, What, Where, When, Why & How of DO IT YOURSELF User Testing

The Krug Method: Who, What, Where, When, Why & How of DO IT YOURSELF User Testing

Jenna Curry January 16, 2013 2

I’ve spent some time this week reading Steve Krug’s 156 page book, “Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do It Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems” and I wanted to pass along a

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Am I Blind Or Are These The Only 8 UX Consultancies In The World?

Am I Blind Or Are These The Only 8 UX Consultancies In The World?

Jenna Curry December 5, 2012 8

I spend a lot of time studying and talking about the User Experience (UX) and what it means for companies and their products and services. So if UX is a real thing, then who

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BUX Podcast #67: How Many Users Do You Need For A User Test?

BUX Podcast #67: How Many Users Do You Need For A User Test?

Ben Snyder November 23, 2012 0

Podcast: Download Jenna and I were looking at this old post by Jakob Nielsen on his website, Alertbox that talked about how many users one needs to conduct a user test. It turned out

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5 Things We Learned From Our First User Test

5 Things We Learned From Our First User Test

Newman Lanier December 23, 2011 0

Do you remember what a mystery sex used to be? (Don’t worry Mom, it still is, I swear. ) You’d talk about it endlessly with your friends just telling and halfway believing each others

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We Did a Drive-By User Test and Lived to Tell About It

We Did a Drive-By User Test and Lived to Tell About It

Ben Snyder December 21, 2011 1

How do you follow up a week full of looking back? By pushing forwards! This week we finally put down the books, stopped all the chitter-chatter and went out and did a user test.

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User-Testing in 3 Questions: Why Drive-By User Testing Works

User-Testing in 3 Questions: Why Drive-By User Testing Works

Ben Snyder December 7, 2011 3

[Note: In Monday's podcast I said we were going to be doing a real user test today. We've decided to push that back to next week. We had two more items we wanted to

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4 MORE Points of Wisdom from Steve Krug’s ‘Rocket Surgery Made Easy’

4 MORE Points of Wisdom from Steve Krug’s ‘Rocket Surgery Made Easy’

Ben Snyder November 30, 2011 4

About a month ago, Newman wrote a post titled 4 Points of Wisdom from Steve Krug’s ‘Rocket Surgery Made Easy’. He was reading the book and wanted to share his insights. At the time,

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4 Points of Wisdom from Steve Krug’s ‘Rocket Surgery Made Easy’

4 Points of Wisdom from Steve Krug’s ‘Rocket Surgery Made Easy’

Newman Lanier October 26, 2011 6

The book I’m reading: Steve Krug’s “Rocket Surgery Made Easy“. It’s a short 168 page instruction manual for performing user-tests on websites.  Following the success of his first book on web usability, “Don’t make

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