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Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 143 times as usability)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,978 ratings — published 2000
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as usability)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,450 ratings — published 1988
Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 45 times as usability)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,383 ratings — published 2009
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as usability)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,532 ratings — published 1995
Designing Web Usability (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as usability)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,169 ratings — published 2000
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as usability)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,949 ratings — published 1999
Universal Principles of Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as usability)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,887 ratings — published 2003
Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests (Wiley Technical Communications Library)
by (shelved 19 times as usability)
avg rating 3.94 — 549 ratings — published 1994
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
by (shelved 14 times as usability)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,563 ratings — published 2003
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as usability)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,133 ratings — published 2002
Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as usability)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,341 ratings — published 2008
Prioritizing Web Usability (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as usability)
avg rating 3.96 — 659 ratings — published 2006
Usability Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as usability)
avg rating 3.97 — 277 ratings — published 1993
Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics (Interactive Technologies)
by (shelved 11 times as usability)
avg rating 4.08 — 568 ratings — published 2008
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as usability)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,836 ratings — published 1998
Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as usability)
avg rating 3.99 — 694 ratings — published 2003
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as usability)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,302 ratings — published 2011
Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as usability)
avg rating 3.72 — 363 ratings — published 2001
A Practical Guide to Usability Testing (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as usability)
avg rating 4.07 — 60 ratings — published 1993
Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as usability)
avg rating 4.02 — 828 ratings — published 2002
Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as usability)
avg rating 4.04 — 773 ratings — published 2010
The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as usability)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,048 ratings — published 2000
Designing Interfaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as usability)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,020 ratings — published 2005
The User Experience Team of One: A Research and Design Survival Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as usability)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,650 ratings — published
Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as usability)
avg rating 3.93 — 873 ratings — published 2006
Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as usability)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,746 ratings — published 2012
Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as usability)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,083 ratings — published 2008
Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability (Interactive Technologies)
by (shelved 7 times as usability)
avg rating 3.92 — 200 ratings — published 2008
Defensive Design for the Web: How to Improve Error Messages, Help, Forms, and Other Crisis Points (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as usability)
avg rating 3.87 — 355 ratings — published 2004
Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as usability)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,307 ratings — published 2007
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as usability)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,060 ratings — published 2019
Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as usability)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,584 ratings — published 2010
Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as usability)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,511 ratings — published 2007
Card Sorting (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as usability)
avg rating 3.96 — 315 ratings — published 2009
A Project Guide to UX Design: For User Experience Designers in the Field or in the Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as usability)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,775 ratings — published 2009
Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as usability)
avg rating 3.71 — 793 ratings — published 2001
Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Commmunication of Data (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as usability)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,803 ratings — published 2010
Designing Interactions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as usability)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,455 ratings — published 2006
The Design of Future Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as usability)
avg rating 3.63 — 727 ratings — published
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as usability)
avg rating 4.12 — 51,251 ratings — published 2013
Evil by Design: Interaction Design to Lead Us into Temptation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as usability)
avg rating 4.03 — 451 ratings — published 2013
Just Enough Research (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as usability)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,150 ratings — published 2013
Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as usability)
avg rating 3.82 — 372 ratings — published 2010
User and Task Analysis for Interface Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as usability)
avg rating 4.24 — 63 ratings — published 1998
The Best Interface Is No Interface: The Simple Path to Brilliant Technology (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 4 times as usability)
avg rating 3.96 — 947 ratings — published 2015
User Is Always Right, The: A Practical Guide to Creating and Using Personas for the Web (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as usability)
avg rating 3.89 — 150 ratings — published 2006
Microinteractions: Designing with Details (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as usability)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,015 ratings — published 2013
Usability Testing Essentials: Ready, Set...Test! (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as usability)
avg rating 3.81 — 89 ratings — published 2010
The Laws of Simplicity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as usability)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,053 ratings — published 2006
Living With Complexity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as usability)
avg rating 3.86 — 964 ratings — published 2010
“Designers love subtle cues, because subtlety is one of the traits of sophisticated design. But Web users are
generally in such a hurry that they routinely miss subtle cues.”
― Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
generally in such a hurry that they routinely miss subtle cues.”
― Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
“Remember, the web isn't about control. If a visitor to your site is familiar with using a browser's native form doodad, you won't be doing them any favors if you override the browser functionality with your own widget, even if you think your widget looks better.”
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