Don’t Make Me Think!

No please don’t make me think, thank you very much. Seriously though, Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition (Voices That Matter) is a must have for any designer and usability specialist out there. A very good read indeed!

Here is the Amazon.com Review: Usability design is one of the most important–yet often least attractive–tasks for a Web developer. In Don’t Make Me Think, author Steve Krug lightens up the subject with good humor 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 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, such as “We don’t read pages–we scan them” and “We don’t figure out how things work–we muddle through.” Coming to grips with such hard facts sets the stage for Web design that then produces topnotch sites.

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