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Don't Make Me Think

A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

By Steve Krug

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| Paperback | 9780321344755

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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 stContinue

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A must-have for anyone that has anything to do with building website or user interface in geneal. Krug writes clearly and succintly, and offers plenty examples. Many of the stuffs are common-sense, but it's exactly common-sense stuffs that we often overlook. I particularly like the sections about in ... (continue)

A must-have for anyone that has anything to do with building website or user interface in geneal. Krug writes clearly and succintly, and offers plenty examples. Many of the stuffs are common-sense, but it's exactly common-sense stuffs that we often overlook. I particularly like the sections about inexpensive user-testing (named "lost-my-lease user-testing"). How I wish I've read this BEFORE I started my current project!

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Greg Sung said on Dec 8, 2005 | 1 feedback

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This was a textbook from an Interface Design course I took. My favorite book on usability - lots of illustrations, humor, and common sense. A learning colleague read this and said, “this should be a must-read for our corporate web team!” It’s one of those books I like to glance through on occasion t ... (continue)

This was a textbook from an Interface Design course I took. My favorite book on usability - lots of illustrations, humor, and common sense. A learning colleague read this and said, “this should be a must-read for our corporate web team!” It’s one of those books I like to glance through on occasion to remind myself that self-restraint is the greatest trait when designing for the web.

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jclarey said on Mar 28, 2007 | Add your feedback

1 person find this helpful

keep innocent

i dont want to know too much,simple is ok

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Kathy He said on Aug 2, 2007 | Add your feedback

Still applies

This is a great book, telling you things that you know in a way that makes you think that you didn't actually know it. And this time you don't ignore it.

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Da Lune said on Sep 8, 2011 | Add your feedback

A must read for a web developer!

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L0r3nz0 said on Jul 7, 2011 | Add your feedback

Very short, easy to read and usefull

but it looks to some extend outdated (I read the II edition - 2006)
In any case Nielsen remains the best one on this topic.

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domenico paterna said on Jun 26, 2010 | Add your feedback