Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug (Book Review)
My straight-to-the-point opinion about it is that if you had read Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think book, you can skip his ‘Rocket Surgery Made Easy.’ The main grain of ‘Rocket Surgery Made Easy’ is basically the same to his first usability book, Don’t Make Me Think.
In ‘Don’t Make Me Think,’ Steve Krug tackles the best usability practices in creating website, which are some things you can implement on your own simple website. While in ‘Rocket Surgery Made Easy,’ he tackles on how to do usability testing for websites. It is more of a sequel to hist first book (duh, rose). But if you had read hist first book, the idea presented on his second book is no longer new to you.
But nevertheless, ‘Rocket Surgery Made Easy’ is a good quick reference for basic usability concepts.
One phrase cited in there which best reflects my situation now, in testing a web application:
“The worst practice is the most common one: waiting for the website is finish and ready to launch.”
The web application I am currently doing some testing is already on beta stage. I could say that my entrance is late already. With all the functionalities/features in its places, and workflow is already laid out, introducing changes is difficult because we can sometimes no longer imagine as to how much of the entire application will be affected.
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