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Since Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, hundreds of thousands of Web designers and developers have relied on usability guru Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design. Witty, commonsensical, and eminently practical, it’s one of the best-loved and most recommended books on the subject.

Now Steve returns with fresh perspective to reexamine the principles that made Don’t Make Me Think a classic–with updated examples and a new chapter on mobile usability. And it’s still short, profusely illustrated…and best of all–fun to read.

If you’ve read it before, you’ll rediscover what made Don’t Make Me Think so essential to Web designers and developers around the world. If you’ve never read it, you’ll see why so many people have said it should be required reading for anyone working on Web sites.

“After reading it over a couple of hours and putting its ideas to work for the past five years, I can say it has done more to improve my abilities as a Web designer than any other book.”
–Jeffrey Zeldman, author of Designing with Web Standards .

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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

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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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Steve Krug (pronounced "kroog") is best known as the author of Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, now in its third edition with over 600,000 copies in print. Ten years later, he finally gathered enough energy to write another one: the usability testing handbook Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems. The books were based on the 30+ 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 ("just me and a few well-placed mirrors") is based in Chestnut Hill, MA. Steve currently spends most of his time teaching usability workshops, consulting, and watching old episodes of Law and Order.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0321965515
Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Riders; 3rd edition (December 24, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 216 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780321965516
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321965516
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.95 x 0.7 x 8.95 inches

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Sean King

Great read! Conceptual thinking and practical advice

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2024

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I’ve read a lot of design related books in my career, and this may be the most engaging one. This book is simple, clearly written, interesting, and at times funny. He presents some high level ideas about user experience. He also offers practical advice on easy ways to improve your work. And the whole thing reads like a conversation with a friend. Highly recommended for anyone who works with the web or apps.

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DarZeeDoats

Buy, don't rent, this usability text!

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2014

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***SPOILER ALERT*** I share Steve Krug’s definition of Usability (even though he doesn't share it until the last chapter) here because I feel it describes his own book so well:
Usability: “A person of average (or even below average) ability and experience can figure out how to use the thing [i.e., it’s learnable] to accomplish something [effective] without it being more trouble than it’s worth [efficient].”
This book is learnable in that its format is structured but delightful, with clearly laid out chapters with copious illustrations that enhance and amuse without distracting. It has a full index and easy-to-reread organization, which I know I will be turning to again and again as I perform regular usability testing on my company’s website.
This book is effective in its recommendations for how (and why) to design sites to be usable and then later to regularly test the usability of what you have created, being ready to tweak based on the results. Many other reviewers have said it, and I mean it: I am going to make this book required reading for all stakeholders in our company website. Whether we digest individual chapters at weekly staff meetings or people read it on their own, there is too much good content in Don’t Make Me Think to keep to myself.
And finally, this book is efficient. Weighing in at a scant 200 pages (yes, exactly 200), it still contains enough deep thought and meaty content to be truly useful. Krug just follows his own directives and writes the book as if writing for the Web, spare and concise, making good use of headings and bullet points to clearly get his message across. I salute his inclusion of the revised chapters addressing the “Wild West” of development for mobile platforms, even though trends are still in flux as developers work out what works and what doesn’t. He is understandably cautious to embrace any trend, and at this point, that is wise. I do look forward to the next revision, however, to see his take on the latest developments.
Don’t Make Me Think was required reading for a course on Emerging Web Trends, and I cannot think of a better text. I have already ordered many of the other books Krug recommends for my holiday reading, and appreciate his inclusion of links to helpful supplementary materials on his own website. If you are a student considering whether to rent or buy this textbook, I would definitely vote “buy.” This one is a keeper.

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Read in 2022. Pretty dated examples, as far as mobile goes, and is the reason for docking a star.

However it’s a good first principles look at UX that any web developer should keep in mind at all times. Great for beginners, or business owners (like me) who want to have a grasp on the fundamentals.

The repeated emphasis on doing testing on real users (and providing a method of doing so) is the big takeaway for me. UX doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

The author has a great sense of humor though, which makes this an easy read.

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Luci Ayyat

Fun to read

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2024

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Includes good information about friendly web design. It does not go into details on HOW to configure those designs, so it assumes you already understand web design basics. I was surprised how fun this book was to read because it has great humor and excellent graphic examples. I read through it in a few hours and have a page full of items to fix on my website now. Glad I finally read it.

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Julie La Crout

Easy read, full of oft-forgotten common sense

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2023

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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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Melanie

insightful and easy read

Reviewed in Canada on October 24, 2023

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Covers the basics but serves as a good reminder of practices that often become subconscious and later lost over time.

MD

C'est un cadeau

Reviewed in Belgium on March 23, 2024

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Lia Ghita

Very good quality

Reviewed in Germany on December 14, 2023

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Great quality and looks like an awesome read so far

N Mehta

Excellent book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 7, 2023

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This is an excellent book. If you would like to know more about software testing related stuff, this is the book to read.

This book is recommended by one of my senior colleague who is working as a Technical Product Owner.

There is a lot to learn from this book. I am so surprised to know that how software testing was happened in the early days.

Great reading. Thanks a lot to author for writing and sharing such a great book.

I strongly recommend it.

MARCO

Classic book that explains the best practices for great interfaces and UX/UI design

Reviewed in Italy on October 13, 2023

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I recommend this book if you are interested in designing anything, especially websites or apps. It contains general advice and encourages common sense for UX and UI design

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