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Location: Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire United Kingdom
In My Own Words:
Usability consultant based in the UK. My website is at www.effortmark.co.uk
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Heard about usability testing and want to try it yourself? This book will take you step-by-step through all the key considerations, from thinking about why you want to test through the details of planning, running, and reporting what you find. The author is a much-loved professor who understands what it is to teach, and to learn. She complements that with practical experience, running a real usability tests for real commercial clients with business problems to solve. So although you'll find plenty of references and academic justification of her approach, this is definitely not an 'ivory tower' that recommends things that are impractical: it's a book that reflects what… Read more
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Let's be clear: this is a very short book. It's not going to teach you tons of stuff about how to create a better product. It's not a textbook. What it is: pared-down, thought-provoking, beautiful. When I picked it up, my first thought was 'lovely' and my second was 'is that it?'. It didn't seem weighty enough to have that much of an impact. As I read it, I realise that there's a lot more insight in it than the size implies. Giles has worked really hard to pare this down to a few simple messages that you can act on straight away. Yes, you can read it all in a (fairly short) train or plane ride. I did that, but I found that I kept stopping to… Read more
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
I've been eagerly waiting for this book ever since Whitney Quesenbery asked me to comment on parts of the book as they wrote it, and I knew that they had chosen to use some of my stories. So as I quickly had my first glance through the book, I couldn't resist looking first at the places where I was mentioned, and came to this story from Whitney: "The first time I talked about storytelling in public, I was pretty nervous. Debi Parush, Karen Bachmann, and Basil White sat up with me the night before while I ripped up and rewrote the whole presentation. The next morning, I arrived to find a room full of people and Caroline Jarrett sitting in front, notepad at the ready… Read more
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