From Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. If your website is hard to navigate, it won’t take very long for someone to get mentally exhausted and leave. Making people think when they land on your website saps their mental energy to continue. In other words, it needs to be self evident to the point that someone with absolutely no knowledge of what you do can understand it in a matter of seconds.
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Website visitors should be able to “get it” – what it is and how to use it – without having to think about it. Krug’s first law of usability and the one thing you must remember when designing a website. Continue reading for a quick overview of each chapter. It’s divided into 4 sections and contains 12 chapters in all.
Krug’s nearly 200 page book comes jam packed with illustrations and tips for making your website more usable.
Check back in a few days for a summary of more of Krug’s insights (…and illustrations too).ĭon’t Make Me Think – A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug Below is the first part of our review for your enjoyment and enlightenment. With that in mind, this review will be broken into two parts. While this book isn’t very long, a blog post summarizing all of the important points would be. Of course to fully understand web usability, I strongly suggest you get a copy of Don’t Make Me Think the first chance you get. Continue reading for a brief overview of each chapter and the concepts Krug explores. Well enough of the glim and glam, let’s get down to the book and what it’s about. Like Krug says in his introduction, it can easily be read in the time it takes to fly from New York to L.A. Krug’s strong visuals and eloquent prose help you easily visualize how homepages, sales pages and any other page on your site should be structured.īesides the good writing and illustrations, the book is an easy read as well. If you remember anything from this, remember those 4 important words and you will understand the essence of good web usability, which should answer four important questions in a matter of seconds without the user having to think.įirst of all, I’d like to say this easy-to-read book by Steve Krug is a must have for anyone wanting to market a business online. With that said the title of a book I recently read on the subject – Don’t Make Me Think – sums up the purpose and spirit of making From Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. This is especially true of websites…they must be user-friendly for each type of visitor coming to your website. No matter if it’s a website, an electronic device or a really nice car – if you can’t easily use it, you’re going to get frustrated pretty quickly. Web usability is a topic I’ve recently begun delving into to learn more about how to make websites more user-friendly.
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