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

by Steve Krug · 2009

A practical guide to conducting usability tests and addressing observed problems.

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Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems appears in 1 currently documented source-backed recommendation.

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Documented citation: Joel Spolsky recommends Rocket Surgery Made Easy as a practical usability-testing guide.

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