Rocket Surgery Made Easy - Joel on Software

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Rocket Surgery Made Easy
Recommended by Joel Spolsky Monday, January 25, 2010

  

Steve Krug has written a follow up to his usability classic Don’t Make Me Think. The sequel, Rocket Surgery Made Easy, is a terrific, short, concise, fun guide to running simple “hallway” usability tests to improve the usability of your software and websites. Highly recommended.



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