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Dont Make Me Think And Html World Wide Web
by
Steve Krug
Usability design is one of the most important--yet often least attractive--tasks for a Web developer. In Don't Make Me Think, author Steve Krug lightens up the subject with good humor and excellent, to-the-point examples.
The title of the book is its chief personal design premise. All of the tips, techniques, and examples presented revolve around users being able to surf m
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Published
2006
by New Riders
(first published October 13th 2000)
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Well, this is an absolute gem of a book. 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.
But Steve Krug makes the topic of web usability genuinely entertaing. He holds a light writing style with a touch of wit that helps to keep your attention from cover to cover. Add to that the short size of the book at only a couple of hundred pages, and the vibrant but clear layout and you've got a book...more
But Steve Krug makes the topic of web usability genuinely entertaing. He holds a light writing style with a touch of wit that helps to keep your attention from cover to cover. Add to that the short size of the book at only a couple of hundred pages, and the vibrant but clear layout and you've got a book...more
كتاب مميز و بسيط جداً
فكرته قائمة على العنوان " لا تجعلني أفكر "
فهو يعطي فكرة لكل مبرمج أو مطور للمواقع أن يقدم موقع للزائر بحيث يكون الموقع بسيط و سلس و واضح دون حاجة ذلك الزائر لإن يدخل - بالحيط - حتى يتمكن من فهم قصدك كمبرمج للموقع .
و حتى إن لم تكن مبرمجاً يمكنك بكل بساطة التعامل مع الكتاب
فكرته قائمة على العنوان " لا تجعلني أفكر "
فهو يعطي فكرة لكل مبرمج أو مطور للمواقع أن يقدم موقع للزائر بحيث يكون الموقع بسيط و سلس و واضح دون حاجة ذلك الزائر لإن يدخل - بالحيط - حتى يتمكن من فهم قصدك كمبرمج للموقع .
و حتى إن لم تكن مبرمجاً يمكنك بكل بساطة التعامل مع الكتاب
Books about design need to pass one critical test. They must be well-designed, and this book is. 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. There is one crucial different between a brick and mortar store and its online counterpart: if you can’t navigate your way to what you want in a store, you can always ask someone. On the web that’s not possible, so web s...more
I bought this book because I needed a quick overview on usability testing. It succeeded on that front. I even had no issues skipping to the usability testing chapters, reading those first, and coming back to the rest of the book: each chapter is pretty self-contained.
Steve Krug's book is a classic for a reason. Great overview of a lot of topics, including pointers for where to dig more deeply into usability testing, accessibility considerations, etc. Very high-level, simple, clearly-written advi...more
Steve Krug's book is a classic for a reason. Great overview of a lot of topics, including pointers for where to dig more deeply into usability testing, accessibility considerations, etc. Very high-level, simple, clearly-written advi...more
I was predisposed in favor of this book because it's the most-voted-for on the UX Stack Exchange. It wasn't all I'd hoped it would be. If this were the first text about usability I'd read, I might have gotten more out of it. As it was, the overwhelming majority of the topics presented seemed patently obvious to me.
On thing this book has going for it is its brevity. Before agreeing to publish a second edition, Krug insisted upon first discovering what could be removed from the first edition so th...more
On thing this book has going for it is its brevity. Before agreeing to publish a second edition, Krug insisted upon first discovering what could be removed from the first edition so th...more
This book lays out some clear and obviously effective principles of usability that I would definitely look over before tackling interface design. Krug reminds us that ‘ease of use’ is easily the make or break deal for any website. “It’s a fact: People won’t use your web site if they can’t find their way around it.” Here we get proof again, that user experience is the key to any successful type of website.
While some of the stuff may be obvious, or maybe just be obvious to me, I found his style to...more
While some of the stuff may be obvious, or maybe just be obvious to me, I found his style to...more
Don't Make Me Think A Common Sense Approach To Web Usability, Second Edition, Steve Krug-- Review
Don't Make Me Think is a book about web usability. Usability is basically how easy it is too efficiently use a website. It tests how to make a website easier for the average visitor.
This book gives you insights into how to make a website easy to use. The first principle is to make your website as obvious as possible. For example, if the visitor is looking for employment information, it should use the...more
Don't Make Me Think is a book about web usability. Usability is basically how easy it is too efficiently use a website. It tests how to make a website easier for the average visitor.
This book gives you insights into how to make a website easy to use. The first principle is to make your website as obvious as possible. For example, if the visitor is looking for employment information, it should use the...more
Jun 07, 2011
Chad Warner
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
web designers
Shelves:
non-fiction,
web-design
An excellent introduction to creating usable websites. As the title states, every website’s design and functionality should be so simple that people barely need to think to use it. The book’s 2nd edition is from 2005, so some examples are dated, but the concepts are quite relevant. This was a fun read due to its straightforward style and Krug’s humor.
When I started looking for web design books, Steve Krug’s classic on web usability frequently appeared at the top of most lists, along with Designi...more
When I started looking for web design books, Steve Krug’s classic on web usability frequently appeared at the top of most lists, along with Designi...more
Lots of great material. Nothing revolutionary, and I agree with the author that this is a good thing. Revolution has its places, but this book is more about learning common sense. That sometimes takes reading from other people's experiences, and Krug obviously has some experience. He's even smart enough to admit that different people have different opinions. And the main technique for improvement is cheap user testing. I can't echo enough what he has to say about cheap.
This book is definitely wo...more
This book is definitely wo...more
What I liked:
- The simple language used to explain normally complex matter;
- The good humour, examples and metaphors the writer uses to explain things. They really work.
Now the bad parts:
- I find the information in the book to be a little too simplistic and common sense. Even for people with only interest on the area of web usability they may find that they already know, or at least thought in a very similar way when they browse daily;
- I understand that this isn't a scientific book and the aut...more
- The simple language used to explain normally complex matter;
- The good humour, examples and metaphors the writer uses to explain things. They really work.
Now the bad parts:
- I find the information in the book to be a little too simplistic and common sense. Even for people with only interest on the area of web usability they may find that they already know, or at least thought in a very similar way when they browse daily;
- I understand that this isn't a scientific book and the aut...more
Jul 24, 2011
Thomas
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
internet professionals, web users, psychology interest
Shelves:
ux-dev
Usability hardly concerns strictly web use. This tidy introduction and exploration on the subject is a great background to many of the buzz words heard in the creative and development team departments. Also, makes many design decisions easy by providing research based and diplomatic responses to many territorial squabbles that arise when sites are designed/redesigned. It provides logical guided procedures for any stakeholder to understand the overall objectives of the website and make business d...more
While Don’t Make Me Think is clearly written with web designers and developers in mind, it’s a useful read for anyone who uses the web regularly or provides content for their organization/company site. Krug is highly entertaining and has condensed his material to a high-impact, low-time investment resource.
He begins by describing, based on years of his own usability studies, how people really search and use the Internet. Moving forward, he explains how to capitalize on this knowledge, and then p...more
He begins by describing, based on years of his own usability studies, how people really search and use the Internet. Moving forward, he explains how to capitalize on this knowledge, and then p...more
Great for Programmers with Little Web Usability Experience: I've been developing web pages for around 7 years. The only thing I can say is I can't believe I never researched usability until now. This book definitely opened my eyes to a whole new aspect of the world of web design.
If you are new to web usability, or if you're a "one stop shop" or a "one-man show", I highly recommend this book. If you're new to web development, I HIGHLY recommend this book - I wish I had learned about usability fr...more
If you are new to web usability, or if you're a "one stop shop" or a "one-man show", I highly recommend this book. If you're new to web development, I HIGHLY recommend this book - I wish I had learned about usability fr...more
Dec 27, 2009
Waylon Martinez
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Beginning or Vet web UI designers
Shelves:
programming
This was a great book for a starting point to website UI design. I have been designing websites and web bases applications for years and haven't ever stopped to think about usability, the 1st impression, and how to accomplish these effectively. Before reading this book I though I knew all there was to design, however this book has provided me with some additional needed insight.
This was a quick read, I expected this book to be very lengthy and provide design principles and examples. But what thi...more
This was a quick read, I expected this book to be very lengthy and provide design principles and examples. But what thi...more
Dec 19, 2011
Laurian
rated it
3 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
tom panning
Shelves:
ux
This was the first book that we read in the UX book club at the company I work at, Next Century. It was suggested by a friend and it seemed like a good first stab at UX for the type of people at my company. This is because it has a lot of pictures, the rules are simple, and the message is clear.
Overall, I would agree with that early assessment. It makes the point of doing usability clear and makes a very clear argument for why it is important.
... However, it had some problems that got under my...more
Overall, I would agree with that early assessment. It makes the point of doing usability clear and makes a very clear argument for why it is important.
... However, it had some problems that got under my...more
I liked this book. It's like the snack food version of usability. He explains each of his points clearly, concisely, and with strong examples. There's not a lot of meaty here's-how-you-can-accomplish-this involved, which Krug claims is because there's no one answer to software/web usability, which is definitely true. Still, I would love to read a follow up about usability testing and how to use the results of such tests in development. As a relatively inexperienced computer person in software QA...more
May 29, 2008
Sean Besser
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
anyone with any say over the look & feel of a commercial web page
MUST READ for anyone with any say over the look & feel of a commercial web page (designers, managers, marketing people, executives, etc.). It's a quick and easy read and is like having my own web usability consultant.
Goodreads and LOTS of other sites should have their managment teams read this.
Goodreads and LOTS of other sites should have their managment teams read this.
Personally, I hate the title of this book. It's insulting. When people tell me they don't want to think, I look down upon them. Yes, I'm one of those people. If we don't think, I believe the person should just be turned into an animal. (Yes, my BDSM tendencies are coming through here.) Perhaps the author specifically picked this title to be provocative in order to have people like me read it. While I loathed the title, the information in the book was great.
I am impressed with how it was laid out...more
I am impressed with how it was laid out...more
عندما فتحت المساحة المخصصة للمراجعة كنت أنوي الكتابة بالإنجليزية، لكن دافع قومي ربما جعلني أكتب بالعربية
الكتاب جيد و دمه خفيف، وشرحه واضح جداً، لكن موجه بشكل كبير للمواقع التجارية
لكن مثلا المواقع الحكومية، المواقع التعليمية كلها تحتاج معايير لقابلية الاستخدام تختلف عن الموجودة في الكتاب، لكن المجال كما بدا لي مفتوح وفي البدايات و يحتاج للكثير
أيضا مصممي الأنظمة و قواعد البيانات، و واجهاتها بحاجة لقابلية الاستخدام وتحديد بعض المعايير لقابلية الاستخدام أيضا
الكتاب جيد و دمه خفيف، وشرحه واضح جداً، لكن موجه بشكل كبير للمواقع التجارية
لكن مثلا المواقع الحكومية، المواقع التعليمية كلها تحتاج معايير لقابلية الاستخدام تختلف عن الموجودة في الكتاب، لكن المجال كما بدا لي مفتوح وفي البدايات و يحتاج للكثير
أيضا مصممي الأنظمة و قواعد البيانات، و واجهاتها بحاجة لقابلية الاستخدام وتحديد بعض المعايير لقابلية الاستخدام أيضا
A no nonsense approach on how to design web sites to be as effective as possible. The second edition adds information on treating users well and designing for accessibility while trimming the focus on how to conduct usability testing. It has been a number of years since I first skimmed this book and I found the changes welcome. 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....more
This was an OK book.
The design, illustrations and typography are really great. All the usability advice is well justified and in many cases quite useful. I especially liked the chapters about usability testing.
However the big problem about this book is the content itself is too vapored and Steve Krug too often says self-evident things in too many words.
There's that guy, Peter Drucker, who wrote some classical books on management. I recently heard someone say that "One paragraph in Drucker's boo...more
The design, illustrations and typography are really great. All the usability advice is well justified and in many cases quite useful. I especially liked the chapters about usability testing.
However the big problem about this book is the content itself is too vapored and Steve Krug too often says self-evident things in too many words.
There's that guy, Peter Drucker, who wrote some classical books on management. I recently heard someone say that "One paragraph in Drucker's boo...more
This is my absolute favorite book on designing websites with the user in mind. Far too often websites are designed from the perspective of a salesperson, a marketer, an engineer or a designer. Far too seldom are they created from the perspective of a person who will actually use the site. Steve Krug teaches from the user's perspective, and does so without many wasted words.
The chapters in the "Things You Need to Get Right" section are my favorite, in particular Chapter 6: Street Signs and Breadc...more
The chapters in the "Things You Need to Get Right" section are my favorite, in particular Chapter 6: Street Signs and Breadc...more
Great book for beginners to web design, UX and any form of digital development. Whilst the book is a few years old (which, in the digital world, means *really old*) Krug's design laws are still as applicable today as they were ten years ago. Many web professionals undermine the importance of design in everyday concept development and consider it something only specialised design professionals should deal with. Whilst there's an element of truth in that (developers are most certainly *not* design...more
Probably the best tagline among all books about interaction design I have read. Since I have read this book I also made this title my first law in defining good design. When using tools or interfaces, I should have no hesitation; this is what “Don’t make me think” stands for. It of course entails another set of laws like making it obvious what the object’s aim is, how appealing it is or how much I trust it.
The author also sets himself high objectives as you would expect a book like this to be en...more
The author also sets himself high objectives as you would expect a book like this to be en...more
People don't have time to waste when they're browsing through the web. And don't make them think, either.
Steve Krug's book is all about taking a common sense approach to web development, especially usability. He wrote that there's no such thing as an average user, everyone is different. So, as you can imagine, developing great websites that appeal to most people is almost like climbing Mt Everest wearing sneakers. It's a lot harder than it looks.
Mr. Krug has created an easy to read, conversati...more
Steve Krug's book is all about taking a common sense approach to web development, especially usability. He wrote that there's no such thing as an average user, everyone is different. So, as you can imagine, developing great websites that appeal to most people is almost like climbing Mt Everest wearing sneakers. It's a lot harder than it looks.
Mr. Krug has created an easy to read, conversati...more
Nov 09, 2008
Doc
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
everyone
Recommended to Doc by:
Scott Bellware
Shelves:
technology
Ironic that this book makes the reader think - think about design and views on life, all at once. An excellent book for stimulating the brain to think and view the world in new ways.
I had a pact with some fellow web nerds at work to read a book on usability to improve our websites. I chose this one because, like a good website, it had short pages and a lot of white space. I was pleasantly surprised to actually enjoy the content as well as the writing style. It is concise, informative, practical, and humorous. Whereas Jakob Nielsen’s classic usability books are chock-full of statistics and details, this book is a new approach to usability, stripped down to what is practical...more
This is a book that if I'd seen it in a bookstore and flipped through it would have stayed where I found it.
Too short, too glossy, type too big, too much whitespace, random snippets seem like obvious commonsense. It couldn't possibly be of value.
But this is one of those cases where my usual flip test of a technical book would have given the wrong outcome and I am fortunate to have got it sight unseen after hearing it recommended in one of the stackoverflow podcasts.
Highly entertaining - the butt...more
Too short, too glossy, type too big, too much whitespace, random snippets seem like obvious commonsense. It couldn't possibly be of value.
But this is one of those cases where my usual flip test of a technical book would have given the wrong outcome and I am fortunate to have got it sight unseen after hearing it recommended in one of the stackoverflow podcasts.
Highly entertaining - the butt...more
The book was a short, quick and easy read that can easily be finished on a plane ride. It's in full color with a couple of helpful diagrams, but I mostly found the comics in it annoying and patronizing. A lot of what Krug brings up in the first half seems like common sense, but he does delve deeper into some points, which may be helpful for some.
The most valuable information I found in Don't Make Me Think was the little quizzes in the middle of the book where readers are presented with sample we...more
The most valuable information I found in Don't Make Me Think was the little quizzes in the middle of the book where readers are presented with sample we...more
Pretty good. Would have been much better for me if I'd had read it ~2001 when it came out. Pretty common sense stuff by now.
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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 second edition with over 300,000 copies in print.
Ten years later, he finally gathered enough energy to write another one: the usability testing handbook Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems.
The books were bas...more
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Ten years later, he finally gathered enough energy to write another one: the usability testing handbook Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems.
The books were bas...more
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“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.”
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