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Summary: Read it Cover to Cover
Review: The first thing I noticed about this book is that the back cover doubles as a bookmark. VERY ingenious! The second thing I noticed is that Mr. Krug writes in a no nonsense manner and one that makes you want to read. No big words here. Just straight forward, down-to-earth, every day language so you can absorb what you are reading with ease and put it to work right away.There are eleven chapters and each contains graphical examples of the material being discussed. From Street Signs and Breadcrumbs to Omitting Needless Words, this book covers all the basics of a good web design. Chapter Nine is a must read as it contains usability testing information. This, as we all know, is a must for ALL webs before publication. If the public can't use the site, it is worthless no matter how much you paid for it. The book contains less than 200 pages and is perfect for that three-hour plane ride to the coast you have planned for next week. Be sure to take Don't Make Me Think with you and read it from cover to cover. You just might learn something.
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Summary: Not for international users!
Review: The value of this book is that it's simple and direct. If you are a beginner in usability and usability testing, buy this one first. However, if live outside the US and you're not familiar to expressions like "Off the bat" or "Everybody wants to drop a line in the home page", maybe you'll have problems. Perhaps the writer should travel a little bit more and see different cultures with people speaking different languages. And then write books people who speak english as second language understand, specially those on usability ...
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Summary: It is common sense
Review: Steve has proved that usability is common sense. I really enjoyed the book. Reading through chapter 9 "Usability testing on 10 cents a day", anybody can feel that can run a short usability test on his own. This is good since most companies think that they have to invest a great deal of money in usability. I would recommend the book to anybody interested in finding out that usability IS common sense.
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Summary: The Unwashed will Finally Understand Usability
Review: I didn't find a lot new, I found it a bit formulaic, I don't agree with parts, and it is now my Absolutely Favorite usability book. Because it's also EASY and FUN and SMART (and FULL of information for people new to usability). I've given several copies as "gifts," but the real gift is to me because people who previously couldn't spell usability (much less practice it) "GET" this book. Besides which, the title is Absolutely Brilliant and if people who wander in my office don't read any more than that, they still leave with a better understanding of usability than when the walked in. Honestly -- I've had several conversations about web site usability just because of having *this* book on my desk (and trust me, I have others there)... and every time I say the book is about "web site usability," there's a pause and then this light bulb goes on and my life just got easier because they connect as an *end-user* and realize what challenges the web team faces.
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Summary: Everyone needs to read this book!
Review: I *just* picked up this book last night. Steve Krug has done an awesome job of making some very basic principles very easy to understand. I read over half of it already, and am absolutely thrilled with it. While I can't say that it hasn't yet taught me anything I didn't already know, it gives me an enormous value of stating things in a clear and entertaining way which I can show to developers and clients. What's even better is that the book is short, easy to comprehend, and VERY entertaining, which means I can get our developers to READ IT!! One has already said he's going to pick up a copy himself to be able to take to meetings with him. I'm going to ask all of our management to read it, too. I think it will help everyone understand the value of design and usability principles, once they comprehend that users *don't* do what they *think* they do, and make my job sooooo much easier.
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Summary: Bring this to the management meetings
Review: Mr. Krug has written a handy distillation of usability methods from the trenches of business. Most usability books read more like theory textbooks than applicable tactics to persuade bean counters and software engineers of the value of usability practices. I say read the thick theory books for the why and this book for the how.
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Summary: Wow, a usability book that actually practices usability!
Review: I soldiered through Jacob Neilson's book and felt like I'been been through a four or five note symphony when I was finally finished. Steve Krug has figured out that tirelessly repeating yourself over and over isn't an effective way of teaching. Don't Make Me Think, get's the mission critical points with enough grace and humor to make the book--get this--actually effective. I've read several usability books before this one, so I can't say I learned much new, but would have to say that this book presented in a way that I believe I will be more likely to remember the information and use it. I only wish I hadn't wasted time and money on the other books.
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Summary: How to Save Yourself MILLIONS In Web Con$ulting Dollars.
Review: I have found my new favorite book. After plowing through a few thousand pages of web design, information architecture and usability texts, I have landed on one that I think flattens them all. DO NOT pass GO, DO NOT collect $200, run (don't walk) to Amazon.com and buy this book. This book handles some of the more whip-weary horse corpses of usability and web design with a fresh, nearly irreverent tone. It's actually interesting to read for anyone concerned with what makes good sites into GREAT ones. A short read at just over 150 pages, the author claims it was designed to be read 'on a long flight.' As his wife so clearly says in the introduction, "when something's hard to use - I just don't use it as much." The book goes on to show you exactly how to make your site easy to use so people will use it. This is starting to sound like a plug, so I'll stop right here. I mean it though, get this book. Now. Are you still here? Go buy it now!
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Summary: It will help make the Web a better place, one site at a time
Review: Don't Make Me Think is an eye-opening book for web designers and managers who oversee websites. It breezily delivers countless tips, tricks, and core usability principles that can immediately be put to good use. I was amused to see one of the very, very few critical reviews of this book claim that it was simplistic and obvious. That's just why this book is so valuable. Upon close analysis many usability problems do seem obvious. There are a billion sites on the Web today and only about 18 get it right from a usablity perspective. Not a good success rate if the problems are obvious to those of us trying to build better sites. Like many excellent literary works, Krug helps us truly see what is right in front of our eyes -- bringing new understanding to the design of a page that we have lost sight of due to our own repetitive viewing. It seems that Krug wisely took his own advice in designing the book. He identified the key principles, the most common problems, the best possible solutions and reduced them to a volume that is truly accessible -- indeed a joy to absorb. If you're looking for an academic tome on interaction behavior, Don't Make Me Think, to its credit, is not it. But if you're looking to make the Web a better place -- one site at a time -- don't click any further.
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Summary: DONT BUY THIS BOOK IF YOU HAVE ANY COMMON SENSE
Review: This book consists of 195 worthless pgs including the index. I must have said "Duh!" more than 15 times in the first 75 pages. It is a book that makes you say "I guess an author is born every minute!" There were so many things written in the book that a person with half a brain cell would say, no s#&t sherlock. The only reason why I finished reading the book is because 1. I wanted to write an unbiased review on amazon and 2. I had some time alone in sitting on the can.
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