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Don't
Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Steve Krug
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Provides
answers to questions about the right way to
design web sites by focusing on usability issues.
This handbook presents principles that should
be kept in mind when evaluating site usability
and are based on user research. |
Detailed
Description
Book Description
This handbook presents the principles that are important
to keep in mind when evaluating site usability to
enhance a visitor's experience. Based on exhaustive
user research, this book will be the first such
title to present conclusions drawn from real data
rather than theory and upposition. Don't Make Me
Think! will provide much-needed answers to perennially
debated questions about the right way to design
Web sites by focussing the debate on real usability
issues rather than from design turf wars. It will
boost the reader's "usability IQ" so they
can detect usability problems in the sites they
manage, design, build, or pay for.
Written in a conversational style, profusely illustrated,
with powerful but clear down to earth explanations
of easy-to-understand examples, Krug will cover
such topics a how to think about usability, how
to develop a sensibility for what works and what
doesn't, how to perform usability testing on a shoestring,
getting designers and web developers to work together,
and navigational guidelines.
From the Author
Even if every Web site could afford a usability
expert (which they can't), there just aren't enough
of us to go around. So I tried to boil down what
I've learned over the years (principles like "Don't
make me think" and "Get rid of half the
words on each page, then get rid of half of what's
left") into a short, profusely illustrated
book‹one that even the guy who signs the checks
(the one who looks at the site when it's ready to
launch and says "I hate green. And there should
be more big pictures.") might read.
From the Inside Flap
"Some books will open your mind. Don't Make
Me Think goes further: it will open your "boss's"
mind (and wallet) to investing in web site usability
And it does so quickly, gently and with humour.
So buy your boss a copy. Better yet, take advantage
of the volume discount and order it for everyone
who's involved in any way with your company's web
site."‹ Louis Rosenfeld, author of Information
Architecture for the World Wide Web
About the Author
Steve Krug is a widely accomplished usability consultant
who works with such companies as Apple, Drugstore.com,
AOL, and Netscape. Krug has written, designed, and
illustrated dozens of user manuals. He has been
a design consultant for Apple Online Services, Symantec,
and the Interactive Bureau.
Description by Amazon
AbleStable®
Review
This a very well crafted book. Steve Krug effortlessly
guides the reader through usability issues with
the aid of superb examples and illustrations. When
AbleStable® was in its' development stages this
book was never far from our hands, reminding us
of the principles and strategies in developing great
web sites. We have no hesitation in recommending
you add this slim but perfectly formed work to your
library.
Review by AbleStable®
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