Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Edition 2

· Pearson Education
4.2
33 reviews
Ebook
216
Pages

About this ebook

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 style as the original: wry and entertaining, yet loaded with insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike. Don't be surprised if it completely changes the way you think about Web design.

Three New Chapters!
  • Usability as common courtesy -- Why people really leave Web sites
  • Web Accessibility, CSS, and you -- Making sites usable and accessible
  • Help! My boss wants me to ______. -- Surviving executive design whims

"I thought usability was the enemy of design until I read the first edition of this book. Don't Make Me Think! showed me how to put myself in the position of the person who uses my site. 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 second edition, Steve Krug adds essential ammunition for those whose bosses, clients, stakeholders, and marketing managers insist on doing the wrong thing. If you design, write, program, own, or manage Web sites, you must read this book." -- Jeffrey Zeldman, author of Designing with Web Standards


Ratings and reviews

4.2
33 reviews
A Google user
August 5, 2012
I don't come from a graphical design background, but Mr. Krug's points rung true with the engineering, aesthetics, and usability philosophies that all technologieans encounter eventually. The use of whitespace, understanding the "user's perspective", or identifying the important+immediate aspects of creation while deprioritizing/re-prioritizing the unimportant+immediate distractions and important+not-immediate sinkholes. It's easy to read this book and think to yourself "of course, that's obvious", but when we look at the bone-yard that is our internet... it's obviously not that "obvious". To be fair; improving standards, collaborative development and communication of those standards, making protocols open, and most importantly adhering to those agreed upon standards... not to mention standing at the edge of what had ever been done before. At times, the situation and outcome has been understandable-- maybe even forgivable. It's time to clean it up though. Mr. Krug is leading the way with his sensible analysis and affable demeanor. If not for yourself then do it for me, for Mr. Krug, for the next generation of internet users... stop polluting our shared resource with crappy /useless drivel. Only you can prevent "poor technology design".
A Google user
June 5, 2012
It may actually be a great book, but I'm looking for books for a research project. They have to be 2007 or later. However, the publish year on this book seems to be incorrect. I purchased it but then found the year 2006... meaning it may be interesting but will not help me with my paper. Hoping that I can get a refund on it!
A Google user
June 27, 2012
Helps us see from user's perspective. Helps curb our own selfishness. I've seen this book recommended in many places.

About the author

Steve Krug is a usability consultant who has more than 15 years of experience as a user advocate for companies like Apple, Netscape, AOL, Lexus, and others. Based in part on the success of the first edition of Don’t Make Me Think, he has become a highly sought-after speaker on usability design.

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