Registration is now open for my Fall do-it-yourself usability testing workshops:

As usual, I'll be teaming up with Lou Rosenfeld who'll be doing his new workshop that explains how to use the log files from your site's search engine to dramatically improve your users' experience. (Lou's workshop will be the day before mine in both cities.)

If you can't make it to Chicago or DC, sign up for my mailing list so you'll hear about our future workshops as soon as we schedule them.

The estimable (and very nice guy, too, as it happens) Jeffrey Zeldman is bringing his An Event Apart road show ("the design conference for people who make websites") to Chicago in October, too. As the blurb says, "in 14 sessions over two 9.5 hour days, you'll learn directly from the leaders in modern web design."

And he's offering a special discount for attendees (including past attendees) of either Lou's or my workshop.

Just use the discount code AEASKLR when you register for An Event Apart and you'll save $100 off the $995 two-day pass (with the discount, $795 early registration, or $895 after September 15th.)

My publisher has posted two videos from an interview I did last October at their Voices That Matter Web Development conference:

• About the book (5:40)
• About usability testing (4:10)

I wasn't aware of it at the time, but apparently my scalp was very itchy that day. And as you'll hear, it was also an "ummm" day. (Might make a good drinking game: every time Steve says "ummmm"....)

But my wife likes the way that green shirt looks on me. And I sound really...earnest.

(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.)”