Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability {first edition}

by Steve Krug

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This book is for the people in the trenches, the designers, the programmers, the webmasters, the project managers, the marketing people, and the folks who sign the checks. It is easily absorbed principles will help you arrive at both the right questions to ask the experts you hire, and practical answers so you can make difficult technical, aesthetic, and structural decisions.

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Donogh The how-to guide on testing usability Steve Krug wanted to write since he finished writing 'Don't Make Me Think'
Neale These books go together.
yesrogeryes Good introduction book of user test

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No earth-shatteringly new revelations (as the book was published in 2000, and is now quite dated), however some common sense advice to usability design and usability testing.
A very nice to read book on web usability. I was especially enlightened by the described approach to usability testing, which made a lot of (business) sense to me (and applies equally well to non-web usability).
An easy read... The advice is pretty common sense now-a-days...

Whenever I read a tech book from 1999-2000, it makes me wish I appreciated the tech Bubble more when I was living through it.
a great book on useability.
“A pesar de lo radical y destructivo que una fuerza social y comercial como Internet ha sido, todavía no ha conseguido provocar una mutación notable en la especie [humana]”

Steve Krug creó una obra que marcó un hito en la historia del diseño de páginas web que pretendía ser una aproximación a la usabilidad en la Web y que ahora (cinco años más tarde) redita en forma de obra de referencia obligada para todo aquél que tenga que ver con el diseño y desarrollo de páginas web. Aunque con lo corto que es (el autor mismo indica que uno de los objetivos que se marcó a la hora de escribirlo fue el de que pudiera leerse durante un vuelo) y lo entretenidamente que está escrito, consigue que llame la atención incluso a lectores show more que, en un principio no tienen nada que ver con ese mundillo .

Mediante una serie de normas informales pero certeras (no me hagas pensar, no importa el número de veces que haya que hacer clic si la opción es mecánica e inequívoca, elimine la mitad de las palabras y luego deshágase de la mitad de lo que quede,…) este libro permite ver las páginas por las que navegamos de una forma completamente diferente, nos ayuda a desarrollar una cierta crítica sobre lo que estamos viendo y a hacernos reflexionar sobre las compañías e instituciones a través del escaparate por el que han decidido darse a conocer por Internet.

Adereza la obra con una serie de interesantes recomendaciones bibliográficas y sitios web para todo aquél que esté interesado en profundizar en el tema.
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Steve Krug managed to labor happily in near-total obscurity as a highly respected usability consultant until the publication of the first edition of Don't Make Me Think. Ten years later, he finally gathered enough energy to write another book: the usability testing handbook Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing show more Usability Problems. The books were based on the 20+years he's spent as a usability consultant for a wide variety of clients like Apple, Bloomberg.com, Lexus.com, NPR, the International Monetary Fund, and many others. His consulting firm, Advanced Common Sense, is based in Chestnut Hill, MA. Steve currently spends most of his time teaching usability workshops, consulting, and watching black-and-white movies from the '30s and '40s. To learn more about Steve and all his doings, please visit him at www.stevekrug.com or follow @skrug on the Twitter. show less

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Canonical title
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability {first edition}
Original publication date
2000-10-23
Canonical DDC/MDS
006.7
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First Edition

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Technology, Art & Design, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Business
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006.7Computer science, information & general worksComputer science, knowledge & systemsSpecial computer methods (AI, barcoding, VR, web design, social media)Multimedia systems
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TK5105.888 .K78TechnologyElectrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineeringElectrical engineering. Electronics. NuclearTelecommunication

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