If I were in a bad mood, I might hold back a star because many of the examples shown are outdated, even in this “revisited” version.
But I’m not in a bad mood and I don’t see the outdatedness as Krug’s fault. The way the web evolves and advances, he’d have to publish a new version almost every year to keep up.
And even though the visual examples may be “old,” the concepts and advice still apply.
Now, what will you learn by reading Don’t Make Me Think? It’s possibly you’ll learn nothing, but rather be reminded of some common sense.
That was my experience reading Don’t Make Me Think. Every rule or advice Krug would give, I would think “duh, of course!” And then immediately realize all the ways I or my colleagues were neglecting that rule or advice. It’s a humbling experience.
A lot of the rules and advice boil down to KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid. We humans have a habit of trying to be clever at times when we not only don’t need to be, but at times when we shouldn’t be. When we start trying to be clever, we confuse people — we make them THINK. As the book title suggests, if we want people to use our websites or apps or buy our products, we don’t want to make them think.
It’s essentially a “back to basics” manifesto full of necessary reminders for how to design user-friendly websites and apps.
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| A Pratical Guide to Simplicity | Master User Experience and Interaction Design from the Developer’s Perspective | Discover a Design Method that Starts with Content, Not Pixels | Crafting Rich Experiences with Progressive Enhancement | A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability | |
| Title | Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design, Second Edition. | The Joy of UX. | Designing Connected Content. | Adaptive Web Design. | Don't Make Me Think, Revisited. |
| Core Concept | Think about design from the user’s perspective; make things feel simple to use. | For modern developers, UX expertise is indispensable. Without outstanding user experience, your software will fail. | Content created just once can be structured and connected to appear all over the place and be reused and remixed. | Understanding progressive enhancement will enable you to visualize experience as a continuum and craft interfaces that are capable of reaching more users while simultaneously costing less money to develop. | Witty, commonsensical, and eminently practical, it’s one of the best-loved and most recommended books on Web design and usability. |
| What You Will Learn | Simplicity is a discipline that can be learned. This book shows you how–with humor, powerful examples, quotes, and case studies. | "Dave has done an excellent job of explaining what developers need to know about UX, in a complete but compact, easy-to-absorb, and implementable form.” - Steve Krug, Author of 'Don't Make Me Think'. | An end-to-end process for building a structured content framework and how to plan and design interfaces for mobile, desktop, voice, and beyond. | How to build elegant, functional websites that work anywhere, won’t break, are accessible by anyone—on any device—and are designed to work well into the future. | The principles of intuitive navigation and information design. |
| About the Author(s) | Giles Colborne helped create one of the world's first commercial websites. He is a former President of the UK Usability Professionals' Association and now sits on their Global Advisory Committee. | David S. Platt teaches Programming .NET at Harvard University Extension School and at companies all over the world. He was selected by Microsoft as one of their Software Legends. | Mike Atherton is a content strategist at Facebook and Carrie Hane is the founder of Tanzen, which provides content strategy consulting and training. | Aaron Gustrafson is group manager of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and serves as an Invited Expert to the World Wide Web Consortium's Open Web Education Alliance (OWEA). | Steve Krug is a highly respected usability consultant who has worked quietly for years for companies like Apple, Netscape, AOL, BarnesandNoble, Excite@Home, and Circle. 'Don't Make Me Think!' is the product of more than 10 years experience as a user advocate. |
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