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Customer Rating:      Summary: Solid. Simple. Accurate. Comment: This book has shed new light on usability for me. I've been a usability fan for some time, and although I feel I've got a good grasp on it, this book made a simple checklist for me to follow so as not to forget the most important points. My last 3 websites have been greatly improved as a result of reading this book and I recommend it to anyone working with web design, web development, project management and so on.
Customer Rating:      Summary: Excelent Content, very down to earth theory. I recommended Comment: This book is excellent! I would recommended to anyone looking for sure plain and simple ways to make sure your web projects are idiot proof.
Lots of examples and anecdotes that will make you laugh (while you learn).
In sum, get it now! You won't regret!
Customer Rating:      Summary: Useability - a nearly forgotten skill Comment: This lovely little book highlights the need to put yourself - the omnipotent web designer - into the shoes of the user - that lowest common denominator visitor to your site - that determines whether or not you have built a successful site. A must read for design concept development.
Customer Rating:      Summary: ... If you like the "for Dummies" series, you'll love this! Comment: As a professor using this book in a Human Computer Interface Design course, this book is a great primer for getting students to do some basic thinking about user behaviors, and appropriate design solutions. It contains easy-to-understand explanations and examples with images and diagrams that make reading it simple and enjoyable. I found that it does communicate some things I found difficult to put into words - things we take for granted that people are not aware of...
If I were only teaching basic todo's I would use this as my only text, however I do supplement it with some info. architecture materials. It does worry me that people do not realize some of the basic concepts introduced in the book, but that seems to be the nature of web designers - since anyone can really stick up a site online now. If you are a web design professional, I would hope you would opt for a book that inspires some 'higher-level thinking' or more conceptual 'bigger-picture' case studies. But if you consider yourself oblivious to what is going on inside a user's head when they're using a site, I suggest either giving up web design or purchase this book.
Customer Rating:      Summary: Clear and concise Comment: A clean clear and concise overview of the do's and don't of web design, with the viewer in mind.
Contains helpful advice for the designer, plus a nifty way of keeping UI testing costs under control.
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