I'd bet most people could pick up a thing or two from it no matter how much web experience you have. I was pleasantly surprised to actually enjoy the content as well as the writing style. Start by marking “Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability” as Want to Read: Error rating book. If people who build a site don’t care enough to make things obvious it can erode confidence in the site and its publishers. I read this handbook on Web usability for work related reasons. My biggest complaint with the book continues to be a lack of a summary or checklist on the high level points with references to where the topic is covered in more detail. I absolutely love it when non-fiction books don't try to be so heavy in their content, and are able to communicate fascinating material with humour, tact and intelligence, and this book fits the bill to a tee. While the book is concise enough to easily skim through I frequently found myself wishing for some more than just the index to find material when I wanted to review a topic. Usability and User Experience “expert” Steve Krug is the author of Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (“everyone’s introduction to UX”) and the usability testing handbook Rocket Surgery Made Easy. It also covers the importance and basics of usability testing. Beginners. Make everything on your site “obvious and clickable.” If your users have to ask about how things work, they’ll get distracted. 4.5 stars. I’ve been working in software for my entire professional career. Even casual web designers can benefit from the simple concepts and step-by-step “effective websites use this” lessons and examples. Among the bits of knowledge Krug sprinkles, good web design is like the layout in a big box store, you should be able to look up and find signs that point you in the right direction. Since Dont Make Me Think was first published in 2000, hundreds of thousands of Web designers and developers have relied on usability guru Steve Krugs guide … It means that as far as is humanly possible, when I look at a Web page it should be self-evident, obvious, self-explanatory.. Is this really web focused or is it a good design book in general? This was a great book for a starting point to website UI design. The book's premise is that a good software program or web site should let users accomplish their intended tasks as easily and directly as possible. Also, makes many design decisions easy by providing research based and diplomatic responses to many territorial squabbles that arise when sites are designed/redesigned. I picked up several interesting insights and tips and found the. 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 book, Krug shows you how to make things easy for visitors to your site by making sure everything on it is obvious at a glance and easy to find and get to. Granted, many of its examples are of long-outdated sites (including--fascinatingly--Amazon's early days). Since Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, hundreds of thousands of Web designers and developers have relied on usability guru Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design. Amazon.in - Buy Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability book online at best prices in India on Amazon.in. As the title states, every website’s design and functionality should be so simple that people barely need to think to use it. Don't Make Me Think is a book by Steve Krug about human-computer interaction and web usability. Today, it’s hard to imagine any business without a website or internet presence. It's in full color with a couple of helpful diagrams, but I mostly found the comics in it annoying and patronizing. Goodreads reviews. It provides logical guided procedures for any stakeholder to understand the overall objectives of the website and make business decisions with full disclosure of usability consequences. Anyhow. And he practices what he preaches - I picked this book in large part because of its clear, attractive, reader-friendly design. Ironic that this book makes the reader think - think about design and views on life, all at once. And I really mean ‘things’ not just ‘web things’.”. Bill Gates Picks 5 Good Books for a Lousy Year. Amazon.in In 1999, I’d spent ten years as a usability consultant helping my clients make their products easier to use. But in the third edition, I expanded it to show that it applied to almost anything that people use. They must be well-designed, and this book is. Since its release in the year 2000 it has become one of the defining texts in the industry and an invaluable guide to UX professionals around the world. Steve Krug's time- and money-saving method of web testing alone is worth the read for developers. Among the bits of knowledge Krug sprinkles, good web design is like the layout in a big box store, you should be able to look up and find signs that point you in the right direction. I had a pact with some fellow web nerds at work to read a book on usability to improve our websites. Web, mobile, and desktop applications are obvious candidates, but it’s just as effective for things like PowerPoint presentations and election ballots. As the title states, every websites design and functionality should be so simple that people barely need to think to use it. “If there's one thing you learn by working on a lot of different Web sites, it's that almost any design idea--no matter how appallingly bad--can be made usable in the right circumstances, with enough effort.”, “It doesn’t matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice.”. Since Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, over 400,000 Web designers and developers have relied on Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design. "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug is one of the first books I read when I was getting into digital design. The book was a short, quick and easy read that can easily be finished on a plane ride. Its very basic (and even calls itself out as such), but I think its a great introduction to the areas of web and mobile usability and is something anyone who is a fan of well-designed products would enjoy! Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug, 9780321344755, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. don't make me think 2. how we really use the web 3. billboard design 101 4. why users like mindless choices 5. omit needless words 6. designing navigation 7. designing the homepage 8. the farmer and the cowman should be friends 9. usability testing on 10 cents a day 10. usability as common courtesy 11. web accessibility 3. It teaches UX designers how to deliver great user experiences in a very simple and accessible way. Since Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, hundreds of thousands of Web designers and developers have relied on usability guru Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design.Witty, commonsensical, and eminently practical, it’s one of the best-loved and most recommended books on the subject. Steve Krug points out that his first law of usability is: “Don’t make users think”. I picked this up the day after finishing Beautiful Code and to be honest, really wasn't in the mood for any more particularly heavy content for a few days. Books about design need to pass one critical test. Except for the past year, Ive been a backend software engineer for backend code in data platforms, web apps, and operations. NOTE: Some of these are affiliate links, meaning that at no additional cost to you, I might earn a small commission if you click through and make a purchase. The design of a web page or anything that you design should be self-evident and obvious. “A lot of the examples are out of date” was the usual comment. Witty, commonsensical, and eminently practical, it’s one of the best-loved and most recommended books on the subject. Interesting, practic, easy to read! I was pleasantly surprised to actually enjoy the content as well as the writing style. Steve Krug (pronounced "kroog") is best known as the author of Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, now in its third edition with over 600,000 copies in print. I was predisposed in favor of this book because it's the most-voted-for on the. showed me how to put myself in the position of the person who uses my site. First written in 2000 around the dot-com crash enjoy the content as well as the style. Has been a number of years since i first skimmed this book before, by Steve Krug 's on. 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