Description
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited (3rd Ed.)
A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Voices That Matter Series
Author: Krug Steve
Language: EnglishSubject for Don't Make Me Think, Revisited:
Keywords
information design; usability; UX; experience design; navigation; home page; mobile usability
216 p. · 17.6x22.9 cm · Paperback
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Design intuitive navigation for the ideal user experience
Hundreds of thousands of Web designers and developers have relied on web usability expert Steve Krug's guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design. Witty, commonsensical, and eminently practical, it's one of the best-loved and most recommended books on the subject.
- Fresh perspectives and examples
- New chapter on mobile usability
- Still short, profusely illustrated...and best of all?fun to read
If you've read it before, you'll rediscover what made Don't Make Me Think so essential to Web designers and developers around the world. If you've never read it, you'll see why so many people have said it should be required reading for anyone working on websites.
"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."
?Jeffrey Zeldman, author of Designing with Web Standards
- Chapter 1. Don’t make me think!
- Chapter 2. How we really use the Web
- Chapter 3. Billboard Design 101
- Chapter 4. Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?
- Chapter 5. Omit needless words
- Chapter 6. Street signs and Breadcrumbs
- Chapter 7. The Big Bang Theory of Web Design
- Chapter 8. “The Farmer and the Cowman Should Be Friends”
- Chapter 9. Usability testing on 10 cents a day
- Chapter 10. Mobile: It’s not just a city in Alabama anymore
- Chapter 11. Usability as common courtesy
- Chapter 12. Accessibility and you
- Chapter 13. Guide for the perplexed
His consulting firm, Advanced Common Sense ("just me and a few well-placed mirrors") is based in Chestnut Hill, MA. Steve currently spends most of his time teaching usability workshops, consulting, and watching old episodes of Law and Order.
- Completely reworked including a new chapter on mobile as well as integrating coverage of mobile throughout --a major addition to the book!
- Common-sense advice, wry sense of humor, and profuse illustrations make for a highly readable introduction to the principles of good Web design.
- Previous edition sold over 175,000 units --anyone that purchased that book is going to want this substantially revised new edition.