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| Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability | 
 enlarge | Author: Steve Krug
Publisher: New Riders
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  57 reviews
Sales Rank: 647
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 216
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.7 x 0.4
ISBN: 0321344758
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9780321344755
Publication Date: September 8, 2005
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Don't Make Me Think! October 6, 2004
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I normally find reading a book straight through almost impossible to do. I read Steve Krug's book straight through which I think shows how good he is at what he does (especially with websites). Well worth having a copy just to know how people interact with information and other 'interfaces'.
Short and effective, makes a powerful point October 27, 2003
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
At last, an author who follows his own advice! This book is short and easy to read (at 200 pages, I read it in a day), but surprisingly deep. The book is peppered with colour screenshots, black and white cartoons and pithy quotes and headings. A pleasure, not a chore, to read.The basic premise is simple; people don't like hard choices or stopping to think, they just want to get something done. The more self-evident a web site is, the easier it is to use. Implementing it, and being sure you've got it right, is tricky, though. Krug covers site and page layout, navigation design, usability testing on a shoestring as well as a broad and engaging model of how people really use the web. It doesn't deal with internationalization at all, seems to assume a mostly static site, and offers no real help in getting your idea to the web in the first place, but will help you make good choices along the way. Well worth a read, and probably worth a refresher each time you start a new project to keep you on track.
The best book on the topic I have ever read August 26, 2003
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
The title says it all. For the novice, or casual browser, you won't find a clearer, better written or more effective book.For the experienced IA or designer, this is a tutorial in how to communicate your ideas. Anybody who has even a passing interest in web design should buy this book.
Simply The best book available. May 13, 2003
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Before I read this book my websites where overcrowded & overcomplicated. Now a braindead chimp could use them.
Steve is a legend at making a very complicated subject easily understood, no matter what your level of knowledge.
Good one for e-commerce and e-info. April 15, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Its chatty, anecdotal and practical style never strays from the point. The result is a smart run through the basic rules of presenting information, choices and navigation on the Web.I would say it's not guide for creating designer sites, but that's not to say you shouldn't have a copy. A web-designer should know about presentation and so on, so that rules are broken *for a reason*. And this easy-reader guides you through just about all those rules in a memorable way. Remember: nothing makes for worse websites than designers who don't know what they're doing trying to break what they think of as the rules. So, why not get this book? It's one slot on the bookshelf that doesn't need to be filled with a difficult to read tome from dullville.
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