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To some I will be preaching to the converted, but for those of you new to online usability, may I introduce Steve Krug and his vital work Don’t Make Me Think. This pint size book has been my saving grace on many occassion, especially when I face a task of monumental proportion: a website with a few 100 pages; redesigning an old idea with loads of preconceptions or dealing with a company whose idea of "new and improved" had be
en tried, tested and found lacking a few years back. The genius of this work has been to prove that usability, while sometimes tricky in application, is a doddle to get to grips with. For example, try the trunk test (p85 second edition) when reviewing a site. By focusing only on what is important the rest of the site’s immaterial material fades into the background and gives the usability practitioner a solid footing for doing what we always try to do: chop the site down by a third.
Thank you Steve Krug for giving us something to hang onto while we swim upsteam.
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To some I will be preaching to the converted, but for those of you new to online usability, may I introduce Steve Krug and his vital work Don’t Make Me Think. This pint size book has been my saving grace on many occassion, especially when I face a task of monumental proportion: a website with [...]
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