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Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

by Steve Krug
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Overview

People won't use your web site if they can't find their way around it. Whether you call it usability, ease-of-use, or just good design, companies staking their fortunes and their futures on their Web sites are starting to recognize that it's a bottom-line issue. In Don't Make Me Think, usability expert Steve Krug distills his years of experience and observation into clear, practical—and often amusing—common sense advice for the people in the trenches (the designers, programmers, writers, editors, and Webmasters), the people who tell them what to do (project managers, business planners, and marketing people), and even the people who sign the checks.

Krug's clearly explained, easily absorbed principles will help you sleep better at night knowing that all the hard work going into your site is producing something that people will actually want to use.

About the Author, Steve Krug

Steve Krug is a highly respected usability consultant who has worked quietly for years for companies like Apple, Netscape, AOL, BarnesandNoble.com, Excite@Home, and Circle.com. Don't Make Me Think! is the product of more than ten years experience as a user advocate.

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From Barnes & Noble

Exactly how do you deliver great web usability? This book shows you, start to finish! Steve Krug knows his stuff, and this slim volume brings together a career's worth of hands-on wisdom and experience. Discover how users really use the Web nowadays -- it's not how you think. Learn how to design pages for scanning, not reading; how to write for the Web; how to build great navigation; create an outstanding home page; and more. Includes three great chapters on doing your own low-budget usability testing -- and making sense of the results.

Booknews

Krug, a usability consultant who has worked for companies like Apple and Netscape, offers sharp observations, a healthy dash of humor, and straightforward solutions to fundamental Web design problems. He shows how to design pages for scanning, how to eliminate needless words, how to design a home page, and how to streamline design for user navigation. He also reveals why most Web design team arguments about usability are a waste of time, and tells how to avoid them. Includes color examples from all types of Web sites on every page. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book Details

Published
October 13, 2000
Publisher
New Riders
Pages
224
Format
Other Format
ISBN
9780789723109

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