Review: Don’t Make Me Think!
A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
That’s what the cover says about Steve Krugs Don’t Make Me Think!. I bought myself a copy of this book, since I got interested by various other web designers who own this book as well.
The first chapter directly explains the title of the book, it is the first law of Krug: ‘Don’t Make Me Think!’. Leading is the task to get rid of all questions users of a web site can have when they visit it, like ‘What’s this?’ and ‘Can I click on that?’.
The other chapters are written in the same clear way as the first chapter: to the point. Krug did a good one on that: he explains most of the content with good examples.
The diversity of the content is also nice: chapter five is about text writing, and chapter three explains how to design web pages for scanning. In the same way chapter seven tells how to design a good homepage, and nine how to test with users.
I’m happy that I’ve bought it.
Posted on Saturday, May 5th, 2007 in Usability, Reviews
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