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Summary: Just get it
Comment: If you work with webdesign or other related areas where you have to think about how users will use your creations, you will no doubt find good use of this book. In this area you will no doubt hear about Jakob Nielsen, as he screams loudest. He's also way off the mark in most areas, and where Nielsen brings stuff down, Krug ignores that, and his book is all about pulling up the good stuff. That will just poor good ideas and common sense over the reader, and I personally have learned a lot from this book.
I use it like a mix of rules and inspirations. Read a few pages now and then, maybe look over it after making a design for an internet page, and you get ideas, reasons to fix or change stuff, and just common sense approach to your work. Just get it, you don't have to filter as much jibberish as with Nielsens books which is the most similar material, and if everyone had this Internet would be a nicer place for all.
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Summary: Don't buy if you have experience or common sense.
Comment: The book was a bit disappointing for me it's by itself not very user friendly information is not organized very logical too much pictures and very little information.
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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: 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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