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A Complete Guide to Usability Testing — Learn Usability from Books
Learn usability testing from top 10 recommend books to help you get started
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5 min readFeb 22, 2023
This article is for anyone who is interested in usability testing and would like to learn it in a formal way, from books! In this article, I'll show you the top 10 books. I got this book list from different sources, such as Christ Oliver’s Monster List of UX Books, Simon Pan’s The Only UX Reading List Ever, Goodreads UX books. These books are highly recommended in the UX community and I hope you enjoy them as well.
Top 10 Recommend Books
- “Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web and Mobile Usability” by Steve Krug. This is a revised version of his classic one. With a sense of humor, this book provides us a practical guide to conduct usability testing and to improve the usability of website. 5-star must-read for anyone who working in web design.
- “A Practical Guide to Usability Testing” by Joseph Dumas and Janice Redish. This book can be used as a guidebook for you to plan, conduct usability testing, analyze the test results as well as generate a usability report. This book is written in an accessible and engaging way which made it easy-to-read for both novice and sophisticated UX designer.
- “Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests” by Jeffrey Rubin and Dana Chisnell. This book is also a comprehensive guidebook for you to plan, design and conduct usability testing. It is a great book with practical advice for you to set up test goals, test scenarios, and preparation of a complete usability testing.
- “Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research” by Elizabeth Goodman, Mike Kuniavsky, and Andrea Moed. This book is another comprehensive guide to user research. I like this book because it covers multiple topics including how to write a report, hold a workshop, build a user-centered culture within a corporate environment.
- “Usability Testing Essentials: Ready, Set…Test!” by Carol Barnum. This book is recommended for a small team of UX players. With a practical and easy to hand guide, we can learn how to conduct usability testing in an agile…
