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Summary: Only Complaint: I Want to Read More of It
Comment: I am a Web/Multimedia designer at a large corporation and happen to be currently in the midst of a major site redesign project with too many cooks in the kitchen. This book not only confirms a lot of what I already know, but gives me some insightful ammo to combat the arbitrary decision making process of others involved in the project, particularly when those decisions might otherwise result in unclear or confusing interface design decisions being made.
Sadly, after a couple of lunchtime reading sessions it's almost over. I wish there where more chapters to read, which really isn't much of a complaint at all.
Buy this book if you do any type of web design at all. I think many of the principles discussed in the book apply to other tasks/roles such as graphic design and page layout in general as well. Light reading, short chapters, easy to get into, filled with lot's of "Aha! I knew my intuition was right about that!" and a few "Oh, really? Maybe we should try it that way instead" moments. Good stuff.
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Summary: I did not think.
Comment: I did not think when reading this book. No, I must have :).
Steve Krug gave no nonsense and easy to grasp concepts + practices about user testing though he talked about Web but you can extend this idea any direction and product if you have good imagination(wait, doesn't that require thinking :))
Don't make users think, that is right.. that is the key but certainly designers have to A LOT OF THINKING !
Now only if someone could write all introductory books (science or not) in this style! And please with a less expensive cost!!!
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Summary: usability mini-book
Comment: If you don't have time but want to know what usability is about then this is the book for you. It's a good help for people approaching this subject for the firs time and it places milestones in the head of the reader.
For the "professionals" is a good book the keep on the desk, both as a weapon to support your thoughts with clear examples to clients both not to forget the basics (I've seen it happening more than once). So if I should save just one book out of the thousands written about the subject I would save this one.
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Summary: This should be your first book on usability
Comment: It's short, with many images, and yet it somehow manages to get to the point without talking about unnecessary things or repeating itself.
If you are going to buy only one book about web usability, this should be the one. If you are thinking about buying Nielsen's books or something on that line, read this book first.
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Summary: Don't Create Another Web Site Without this Book
Comment: This is the one book that will immediately make you understand that the IT wizards and content managers have separate and distinct jobs. Please, don't spend multi-bucks on another monument to Internet Technology without absorbing, understanding and applying usability testing before releasing another "stinky" web site that no one will look at twice.
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