Steve Krug (cartoon image)

Advanced Common Sensesm is the online home of Web usability consultant Steve Krug.

I specialize in:

  • Expert usability reviews (existing sites or apps, or work-in-progress)
  • Usability workshops

The Workshops

There are still a few seats available for my do-it-yourself usability testing workshop in New York City on May 25th.

I’ll be joined by Lou Rosenfeld, teaching his Adaptable Information Architecture workshop on the 23rd, and Rachel Hinman (Mobile Prototyping Essentials) on the 24th.

Recent Interviews MORE INTERVIEWS

Johnny Holland has audio of a conversation I had with the estimable Jeff Parks. (Please ignore the part at the 21-minute mark where I say people don’t need to buy my book.)

Steve Krug in his home officeAnd .net Magazine did a very nice interview. They even sent a photographer to Boston to take pictures of me in my natural habitat!

Meanwhile, in the Forum...

From my do-it-yourself usability testing forum:

I've designed and facilitated a dozen or so tests on startup sites over the past couple of years but the last round I did was for a large publishing company and boy was I nervous.

The results were outstanding.

One forgets how bloody fantastic it is when that behemoth of an issue shows it's face for the first time... Priceless.


Recently, in the blog...

Help!!!

Caroline Jarrett and I are doing a session at the UPA conference in June (in beautiful, oppressively hot downtown Las Vegas) about why people pay for our advice about usability and then ignore it, and we could use your help.

Can you do us a favor and fill out a short survey?

(Caroline won't let me say just how short it is, because everyone's mileage will vary so I'd inevitably be misleading some of you. But I can tell you it's only eight questions, and five of them are multiple choice. And it's all on one Web page. And we won't ask you to identify yourself at all.)

UPDATE: Forgot to mention that we'll be posting the results in June, in our UPA slides.

Thanks!

The Books

Book cover: Don’t Make Me Think!The original. Everything I know about Web usability (well, almost everything) in 224 pages. Over 300,000 copies in print.

Book cover: Rocket Surgery Made EasyThe sequel. The how-to guide to doing your own usability tests. Hint: It’s much easier than you’d think.


Our corporate motto: It’s not rocket surgerysm