Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability |
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Author:
Steve Krug
By New Riders
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Provides insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike. This book discusses why people really leave Web sites; making sites usable and accessible; and, surviving executive design whims. It offers help for those whose bosses, clients, stakeholders, and marketing managers insist on doing the wrong thing.
Amazon.co.uk Review
Usability design is one of the most important though often least attractive tasks for a Web developer. In Don't Make Me Think, author Steve Krug lightens up the subject with good humour and excellent to-the-point examples. The title of the book is its chief personal design premise. All of the tips, techniques and examples presented within it revolve around users being able to surf merrily through a well-designed site with minimal cognitive strain. Readers will quickly come to agree with many of the book's assumptions. For example, "We don't read pages--we scan them" and, "We don't figure out how things work--we muddle through". Getting to grips with such hard facts sets the stage for Web design that then produces top-notch sites. Using an attractive mix of full-colour screen shots, cute cartoons and diagrams, and informative sidebars, the book keeps your attention and drives home some crucial points. Much of the content is devoted to proper use of conventions and content layout, and the "before and after" examples are superb. Topics such as the wise use of rollovers and usability testing are covered using a consistently practical approach. This is the type of book you can blow through in a couple evenings. But despite its conciseness, it will give you an expert's ability to judge Web design. You'll never form a first impression of a site in the same way again. --Stephen W Plain
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 Usability Bible, 2010-04-27
After reading this book every website I view I review for usability in order to take away what's good and bad in order to help my own designing and building of websites. Although this book is aimed at anyone involved in building websites - from management to coders and designers - it is written clearly enough that anyone who has any experience of using a web site will be able to comprehend and take away a new understanding about web usability.
 Exceptionally clear, 2010-07-11
I had only got halfway through this book when it was stolen, so essentially this is a review of the first half. However, it is the clearest explanation of factors that influence website user behaviour I've ever read and really helps make stunningly simple those fundamental principles in one's own head for when designing a website. It's so good I'm getting another copy even though I've already read half of it.
My only criticism is that it is now 5 years old, and although the fundmanental principles of human behaviour have not changed much in that time, the internet environment has changed significantly in some ways. But when my replacement copy arrives, even if the second half turns out to be rubbish (which I doubt), it is worth getting for the first half of the book alone, 5 years old or not. I think a useful phrase to be associated with this book is 'hits the nail on the head'. It's the kind of writing that makes you want to see what else the author has written in case you can justify getting it.
 As Dean Allen wrote just short of ten years ago., 2010-07-19
Users don't read,
users only scan,
users haven't got
no attention span.
Careful, keep repeating it to yourself and you might start to believe it.
What a great book, 2010-05-25
Readable in a few hours, this well-written book gives the essentials of web usability. It's like having a friend say "We could make this complicated, but here's what you really need to know." Great ideas "We're thinking great literature.. user thinks billboard" make this thought-provoking read not only about web usability but also about branding and approaches to consultancy.
Web Design for Idiots, 2010-05-01
This is a short 100 pages devoted to telling you to keep your pages easy to understand and not confusing in any way. There really isn't anything else in this book. The examples, book layout and copy are all old and dated like they were produced in the late '90s. There is nothing more than the most basic of common sense in here. Unless you think making a cluttered web page where the text links are not clear is a good idea, I wouldn't bother with this book.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9780321344755
ISBN: 0321344758
Label: New Riders
Manufacturer: New Riders
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 216
Publication Date: 2005-08-18
Publisher: New Riders
Studio: New Riders |
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