Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web UsabilityFive 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!
"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 |
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... use, or the use of any trade name is intended to convey endorsement or other affiliation with this book. ISBN 0321344758 9 Printed and bound in the United States of America FIRST EDITION To my father, who always wanted me to.
... use, or the use of any trade name is intended to convey endorsement or other affiliation with this book. ISBN 0321344758 9 Printed and bound in the United States of America FIRST EDITION To my father, who always wanted me to.
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... who always wanted me to write a book, My mother, who always made me feel like I could, Melanie, who married me—the greatest stroke of good fortune of my life, and my son Harry, who will surely write books much better than this one ...
... who always wanted me to write a book, My mother, who always made me feel like I could, Melanie, who married me—the greatest stroke of good fortune of my life, and my son Harry, who will surely write books much better than this one ...
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... who comes to the workshop can submit a URL, and during the day I do 12minute “expert minireviews” of some of them, and a live user test of one or two others. And as anyone who's ever taught anything knows, teaching something is the best ...
... who comes to the workshop can submit a URL, and during the day I do 12minute “expert minireviews” of some of them, and a live user test of one or two others. And as anyone who's ever taught anything knows, teaching something is the best ...
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... who suggested moving the chapters on user testing to another book. (Some of them had heard that I was planning to do another book that would cover lowcost/nocost doityourself user testing in detail, and some said they wouldn't miss the ...
... who suggested moving the chapters on user testing to another book. (Some of them had heard that I was planning to do another book that would cover lowcost/nocost doityourself user testing in detail, and some said they wouldn't miss the ...
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... who were nearly driven out of their minds by the constant changes in code—and by the fact that we were making it up as we went along. But relief slowly faded into frustration. The inflexibility of HTML, the lack of fonts, the ...
... who were nearly driven out of their minds by the constant changes in code—and by the fact that we were making it up as we went along. But relief slowly faded into frustration. The inflexibility of HTML, the lack of fonts, the ...
Contents
FOREWORD By Roger Black | |
GUIDING PRINCIPLES | |
How we really use the | |
Billboard Design 101 | |
Animal vegetable or mineral? | |
THINGS YOU NEED TO GET RIGHT | |
The first step in recovery is admitting that | |
MAKING SURE YOU GOT THEM RIGHT | |
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Common terms and phrases
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