Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Name: Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
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ISBN: 9780789723109

ISBN-10: 0789723107

ISBN-13: 9780789723109

Edition: 2nd 2000

Authors: Steve Krug

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This text provides answers to questions about the right way to design web sites by focusing on usability issues. It presents principles that should be kept in mind when evaluating site usability and are based on user research.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 10/13/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction: Read me first


Throat clearing and disclaimers


Guiding Principles



Don't make me think!


Krug's First Law of Usability



How we really use the Web


Scanning, satisficing, and muddling through



Billboard Design 101


Designing pages for scanning, not reading



Animal, vegetable, or mineral?


Why users like mindless choices



Omit words


The art of not writing for the Web


Things You Need to Get Right



Street signs and Breadcrumbs


Designing navigation



The first step in recovery is admitting that the Home page is beyond your control


Designing the Home page


Making Sure you Got Them Right



"The Farmer and the Cowman Should Be Friends"


Why most Web design team arguments about usability are a waste of time, and how to avoid them



Usability testing on 10 cents a day


Keeping testing simple--so you do enough of it



Usability testing: The movie


How to do your own testing



On not throwing the baby out with the dishes


Interpreting test results


Recommended reading


Acknowledgments


Index