Testing your website on a tight budget

Monday, 14 April 2008

Steve Krug, author of the excellent “Don’t make me think” offers a great website usability tip for those on a tight budget:

If you really want to know if your website works, ask your next door neighbour to try using it, while you watch. You bring the beer.

Check out some of his other great tips while you’re at it.

Posted in Usability, Web by Ivan

Jones - Tuesday, 15 April 2008 2:47 pm
That's probably one of the most sensible things I've heard of. But where are the other tips you mentioned? I couldn't find them.
Ivan - Tuesday, 15 April 2008 3:22 pm
There are no other tips, it's just my dry sense of humour and (probably) the point of Steve Krug's message: it's the same tip every month because it's so important.

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