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  Expert usability reviews (existing sites or work-in-progress)  
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The Workshop!

My do-it-yourself usability testing workshops are finished for 2008. But Lou Rosenfeld and I will be hitting the road again in Spring 2009.

If we follow our usual pattern, we'll be picking our Spring venues in January or February, and some of the current candidates are Atlanta, Portland, Vancouver, and London[!]. (It's a little like the IOC, except we don't do it eight years ahead of time and the cities aren't vying to have us there.)

If you'd like to be notified when we firm up our Spring workshop schedule, just sign up for my mailing list.

 I got to meet Spolsky!

Neil Davidson has just put the video of my presentation at Joel Spolsky's Business of Software conference online. It's called The Least You Can Do™ about Usability.

And yes, I do have shirts that fit me. Apparently I was not wearing one that day. My apologies. Just avert your eyes.

Photo of Steve Krug wearing ill-fitting shirt

This Month's Tip

(and Last Month's Tip, since June 1997)

       “If you really want to know if your
        Web site works, ask your next
        door neighbor to try using it, while
        you watch.

        (You bring the beer.)”

The book!

Can't afford a consultant? Here's everything I know about Web usability (well, almost everything) in 224 pages.

The second edition of Don't Make Me Think (“Now with three new chapters!”) has sold over 80,000 copies. Thanks, everybody.

Book cover: Don't Make Me Think!

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Interviews

Here are a whole bunch of interviews I've done: some audio, some video, some plain old-fashioned text. (Notice how I struggle not to give the same answer twice.)

And finally, a cybercast of a presentation Lou Rosenfeld and I did together, analyzing the Library of Congress Web site.

   
 
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