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Summary: Best practices from the real world
Review: One of the best books I've read on webs usability design.Very well written and insightful. He also gives the real world reasons why good design affects the bottom line. It' not because a bad design pushes the user off your website. It's because, like good lighting in a department store, it makes everytyhing else SEEM BETTER. Great suggestions for EVALUATING usability. How else will you know if you're actually done it right? PROGRAMMERS: This book is also applicable to user-interface design.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: I enjoyed the book very much. It was full of a lot of useful information. I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in making their website more effective.
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Summary: Simple and great!
Review: Very fast reading, great examples and really nice tips!
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Summary: One of the very few gems in this category.
Review: I highly recommend this book for anyone responsible for creating, maintaining or managing web content - from a corporate Intranet to a commercial Internet site to a personal home page. I've read many in this category (Web Usability) and this one truly delivers on the promise for practical information that you can use immediately, delivered in an easy-read format for busy people. We're curently in the process of redesigning our corporate site and I will be handing this book out to everyone on the team.
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Summary: Good Read - Good to Own
Review: Enjoyable, articulate, and knowledgable. Informs you while not talking down. Good to the last page. Mixes a good sense of humor too. Enjoy!
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Summary: Your Site Will Improve After Reading This Book
Review: Are you responsible for your site's "ease-of-use?" Yes - then you must get this book! Unless you already paid thousands of dollars (and I mean thousands!!!) to the author to consult you and your team on improving your site's perfomance. If so, well you already got everything that's in this book. And I bet your site is so easy and intuitive to use. That is provided you implemented the advice. You'll laugh, smirk and "aha" your way through this book. The author uses humour throughout the book. Unlike most other web site improvement books, Krug wrote his book with just a few examples - but every one hits a home run and can be implemented. His expertise is based on years of tested trial and error and for the most part common sense. But, it's the kind of common sense that you need someone else to point out. We've implemented many of teh suggestions Krug details in the book. We've seen increases in site usage and positive feedback from site users. I feel that his principles go beyond site design though...the underlying principle of making it easy for people to interact with your site is applicable to any dialogue between a person and any product, service, or person. In short, you're bound to read this book cover to cover and then rave about it. And, implement some of teh pratcical and "aha" improvements to your site...to make sure that your site visitors don't have to think.
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Summary: The Best Website Usability Book Out There
Review: If you buy any book on website usability, this should be it. Have read Nielsen, Rubin and Rosenfeld/Morville. Out of all of them, this one was the best. Krug cuts to the chase by writing in non-techie terms. This makes the concept of usability a better sell to the uneducated. Just wish that the website developers who control the major websites out there knew about this book and the exemplary guidance it provides.
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Summary: Worth Reading But Has Serious Flaws
Review: Mr. Krug thoughtfully points out usability issues that every web developer should be aware of, and his points are well-considered ones. But there are some serious flaws. To begin with is his definition of "usability" -- usability for whom? Mr. Krug completely ignores web accessibility issues for persons with disabilities. The web-viewing public he is concerned with have no disabilities that make reading pages difficult or impossible, do not use assistive technologies, or do not use old browsers. The author fails to mention that approximately 20% of web surfers have some form of disability, and fails to suggest online or book resources for learning more about this issue. Designing for ALL surfers is not, as he would put it, 'rocket surgery'. Is he really unaware of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as put forth by the W3C or of section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act? His sections about navigation are absurdly one-sided. Does he truly think that javascripted navigation, or navigation with tabs are universally usable? Secondly, the author is still stuck in largely tables-based HTML presentation methods. Usability means building a site that works on hand-held and telephonic devices as well as assistive interenet devices. This can be accomplished through XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets. In fact, separating markup from presentation is a large part of what Mr. Krug should be discussing, but doesn't. Thirdly, Mr. Krug's examples are of large, well-branded sites. That's fine, but his comments and suggestions seem best-suited to those sites, not small business or other small-site needs. This shows in his lack of information about designing pages that will expedite search engine effectiveness. In fact, he outright dismisses the usefulness of the introductory paragraph often found on homepages as "happy talk", stating that "happy talk must die" (p. 46). Many search engines print this paragraph, or a portion of it, as part of the information you see when you're searching for a topic. Why not tell developers how to utilize this paragraph to advantage? Is it because his examples are large sites with well-known branding that don't require additional information? The wording of that paragraph can make or break a search engine user's decision about visiting a site. Even though it is painfully lacking in some very vital information, Mr. Krug's book is worth reading. However, a savvy developer will not take everything he says as gospel, but will continue to learn more about what usability *really* is, what new developments are coming 'round the bend, and will seek out more fully-rounded information before committing development hours and money just to end up with a half-usable site.
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Summary: A must for all in web design
Review: Krug has put together a deceptively short and simple book that deals with the diffucult topic of how to design and put together web sites. This is not a book about hacking HTML or putting together a Flash animation, in fact you'd be hard pressed to find much of any talk about any technologies in Krug's book, but I think that is a relief. He had a unique way of in very simple words explaining some of the more difficult concepts in web design, such as web site navigation. It is a good book for both those experienced in web design and development and those just starting out. And the title in a wonderful way sums up the book - "Don't make me think!"
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Summary: Obvious to Most
Review: This is an OK book. Good for those who have not designed a site and are unfamiliar with the internet.
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