Steve Krug is the author of the bestselling book Don’t Make Me Think!, which has racked up worldwide sales of 250,000 since its publication in 2000.
That book based its approach to assessing and improving the usability of websites on the injunction in the title. If visitors to websites have to figure out what to do on a website, then the website is operating at a disadvantage.
Krug offered some very pertinent, uncomplicated advice on web usability, how to judge it and how to implement solutions to problems that are identified.
When updating that first book in 2005, Krug decided that Rocket Surgery Made Easy had become necessary: a handbook for putting usability principles into practice, focusing in particular on user testing.
As I get older, it’s inevitable that I witness the passing of my personal heroes.
Some have shocked me, some have perplexed me, all have saddened me. The death of Kate McGarrigle took me by surprise.
She and her sister came to my attention in the early 1980s when I had moved from Hobart to Sydney to follow a tenuous path into theatre. Shared houses in Surry Hills, busking at Kings Cross, all night discussions of method, broken hearts … to a soundtrack of John Martyn (also RIP), Joe Jackson, and the McGarrigle Sisters.
What he does is marry cutting edge technology with an audio artist’s aesthetic understanding to create truly superior loudspeakers.
In Brad’s case, that often involves creating the cutting edge technology required, or at least applying the known in a new way. He’s without doubt one of the best in Australia, and his speakers end up all over the world.
Steve Krug is the author of the bestselling book Don’t Make Me Think!, which has racked up worldwide sales of 250,000 since its publication in 2000.
