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| Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Circle.Com Library) | 
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| Author: Steve Krug
Publisher: New Riders
Category: Book
Buy New: £67.95
New (4) Used (7) from £10.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 59509
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7 x 0.5
ISBN: 0789723107
Dewey Decimal Number: 025.04
UPC: 029236723101
EAN: 9780789723109
Publication Date: October 30, 2000
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| Customer Reviews:
 Short and sweet April 9, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is definately not for usability experts. It is for everyone, it's short and sweet. If you want to know basics than go on, it is good! But don't expect detailed knowledge. I much more advice to read Jakob Nielsen if you want detailed source of knowledge.
A must read for any web designer/developer February 12, 2008
Steve manages to pull off something that is usually overlooked when it comes to discussing web usability.
Every thing is written in plain and simple English.
Everything is common sense and easy to take on. The terminology will be easy for anyone to digest - while being plain and simple, it's understandable to newcomers while not patronising more experienced readers.
The entire book is designed to be read cover-to-cover in a few hours (depending on your reading ability). I am not someone who can just eat a book up and have been reading it during coffee-breaks and the like.
If you have any involvement in websites and want to add something else to your skill set, don't even think about forking out on this book.
Wow! January 25, 2008
Having just "adopted" two company websites, I've been buying books to help me get to grips with it all. This book answers a number of things and explains exactly what I need to do to impress customers, keep them and get them to buy. Excellent
Excelent Book November 2, 2007
Great book! Very easy and simple to read. One of my first approaches to usability got me to this book. Besides getting the message quite well I thought the reading was very funny.
I definitely recommend it.
Essential reading for anyone involved in website production! September 15, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Since reading the first edition some years ago, I always refer to this book during usability presentations and recommend it to not only designers and developers, but also consultants, project managers and even clients. When the second edition was released in 2006 I purchased a few copies for the office and made it essential reading for everyone!
It's a very easy read and doesn't complicate matters with technical jargon, but instead relates to everyday tasks such as likening finding a product on a website to looking for a chainsaw in a hardware store. It examines the way we use the internet, it highlights that people don't use websites the way the designer intended and that we don't `read' websites, we scan them. It covers popular, common-sense solutions to these issues and uses clear, well-illustrated examples. It also talks about simplifying usability testing so you do enough of it, and uses some real-world examples to demonstrate.
It is an essential purchase for anyone involved in website creation and there are three new chapters in the second edition that help justify a new purchase if you already own the first edition.
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