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The Workshop!

It's that time again: Here's the schedule for my Spring do-it-yourself usability testing workshops:

April 3   Boston
May 16   Chicago

Registration is now open!

As usual, I'll be teaming up with Lou Rosenfeld who's going to be offering a brand new workshop based on his forthcoming book about Search Log Analysis. (Lou's workshop will be April 4th in Boston and May 15th in Chicago.)

If you can't make it to Boston or Chicago, sign up for my mailing list so you'll hear about our Fall workshops as soon as we schedule them (usually sometime in June).

 Bad hotel shampoo, perhaps

My publisher just posted two new videos from an interview I did last October at their Voices That Matter Web Development conference in San Francisco:

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.

Photo of Steve Krug scratching his head

I'm going to be giving another talk at New Riders' next Voices That Matter conference in June in Nashville, and if you mention my name (actually, the promo code WDNKRUG) you can save yourself $200 off the registration price.

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 few online interviews I've done. (Notice how I struggle not to give the same answer twice.)

And here are four audio interviews.

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

   
 
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