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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
- By Steve Krug
- Published Aug 18, 2005 by New Riders. Part of the Voices That Matter series.
- Copyright 2006
- Dimensions: 7" x 9"
- Pages: 216
- Edition: 2nd
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-34475-8
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-34475-5
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Steve Krug is a usability consultant who has more than 15 years of experience as a user advocate for companies like Apple, Netscape, AOL, Lexus, and others. Based in part on the success of the first edition of Don’t Make Me Think, he has become a highly sought-after speaker on usability design.
Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it's hard to imagine anyone working in Web design who hasn't read Steve Krug's "instant classic" on Web usability, but people are still discovering it every day. In this second edition, Steve adds three new chapters in the same style as the original: wry and entertaining, yet loaded with insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike. Don't be surprised if it completely changes the way you think about Web design.
Three New Chapters!
- Usability as common courtesy -- Why people really leave Web sites
- Web Accessibility, CSS, and you -- Making sites usable and accessible
- Help! My boss wants me to ______. -- Surviving executive design whims
"I thought usability was the enemy of design until I read the first edition of this book. Don't Make Me Think! showed me how to put myself in the position of the person who uses my site. After reading it over a couple of hours and putting its ideas to work for the past five years, I can say it has done more to improve my abilities as a Web designer than any other book.
In this second edition, Steve Krug adds essential ammunition for those whose bosses, clients, stakeholders, and marketing managers insist on doing the wrong thing. If you design, write, program, own, or manage Web sites, you must read this book." -- Jeffrey Zeldman, author of Designing with Web Standards
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56 of 58 people found the following review helpful
Sequel (2nd ed) lives up to the original, By
This review is from: Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
When we design Web sites, we often overlook the simplest things because we're too wrapped up in the design. After working on Web sites for a while, some of us have slowly moved away from what we know is usable to adding or removing elements that may enhance the `look' - and also break a site's usability.Steer back on track with the new edition of Krug's highly referenced book. Novice, intermediate, expert. No matter where you are on the scale, the book provides value to everyone - even managers, testers and project managers. Management likes to get their hands a little dirty when it comes to Web design projects and sharing this book may make the team's life easier. Anyone involved with Web design or usability will recognize most, if not all, of the concepts covered in the book. What makes Don't Make Me Think usable is that it's a great checklist to ensure you've covered all the basics. Krug provides many before and after examples to show how a few... Read more
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This review is from: Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
Not much too add beyond what many of the other reviewers have said, except that it was a real pleasure to read such an approachable book, and get so many good ideas in such a short amount of time. Note: this isn't a book about theory. It's about what works and doesn't work in practice and that's it. Krug gets right to the heart of the matter on every point. If you're looking for detailed discussions of web design techniques and why they're good or bad, this is not the right book for that.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Drives points home...for the luddite, By
This review is from: Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
First off, let me preface this by admitting that I am not a web designer or information architect expert by any means. I work in tech being a "jack of all trades" with internet applications where we are always strapped for resources (ie we don't have designers or web producers for this side project, all those resources are devoted to the cash cow at our company). At some times I'm an acting site product manager other times I'm a product marketer.Steve Krug distills "everything you need to know" into a short book that is written colloquially and deals with real-life web team scenarios, and gives some really simple exercises for reviewing a website. I especially appreciate his beginning most chapters with a real-life example (ie a designer vs a developer disagreeing about the use of a pulldown menu). This shows me he's been in the trenches before, and keeps me interested in what his solution is. His chapter on how to run usability tests on a shoestring... Read more |
Praise For Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
“Fine-tuning your site's functionality doesn't require thousands of dollars or months of meetings. In his latest book, Don't Make Me Think, site design expert Steve Krug outlines a better way.” Read the full review at:
http://internetmarketingreport.blogs.com/blog/2006/06/down_n_dirty_us.html
The Internet Marketing Report: Steal These Ideas Blog
June 6, 2006
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