The Least I Can Do: Designing Applications People Can Actually Use

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Michael Knopf

Published: Wednesday, January 06, 2010

If you design applications that anyone in the world, other then yourself, will use then you really need to be thinking about usability during the entire development process. Some of you (hopefully) have heard of Steve Krug, the author of Don't Make Me Think. This is a great video of a talk Steve gave at Joel Spolsky's Business of Software conference which covers The Least We Can Do to create usuable software.

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