Customer Rating:  
Summary: Not for an experienced web designer.
Comment: As many reviewers have said so far, this book is great for beginners. I agree. But if you already know most of the "DOs" and "DONTs" of web usability, you will get little more from this book. I highly reccomend "Designing Web Usability" by Jakob Nielsen as a great read for designers of any ability level. It's an easy read and covers everything, inlcuding just about everything in this book.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very good book for beginners
Comment: This is a very good book for somebody who is new in Web usability field. Useful for web developers, designers, project managers and marketing guys. Common sense approach, easy to read, understand and practise. (Much better than "Web pages that suck", which just gives some bad examples of web usability)
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Summary: Made me think a lot!
Comment: This book is excellent. Every page worth reading - and then reading again. As someone whose job it is to do usability testing for our company's web site and HTML emails, and do it in little time with even fewer dollars, Steve Krug provides a roadmap to getting the job done. Steve has become my personal god as regards to usability.
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Summary: This book did made me think!
Comment: I can't say enough about this book. Great examples and good explanations of the logic behind web usability. We use it every day to evaluate what's good and bad about our sites and where we want them to be. For anyone involved in designing or helping to determine the direction of a web site, it's a must-buy.
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Summary: This One Will Keep You Up Late
Comment: The first thing I thought when considering whether to purchase this book was, "Wow. Could it really be worth ... in soft-cover?" Did I buy it? Well, sure--otherwise I wouldn't be writing this review. And the thing that made me finally decide to purchase the book was the title, "Don't Make Me Think." In a world that values simplicity and ease of use, those are words to live by.Designers looking for some real nuts and bolts technical information probably won't get much from this book. Actually, tech talk is not what it's about. "Don't Make Me Think" is a friendly, accessible treatise on the principles of Web usability--how to keep users at your site longer by giving them the most uncomplicated experience possible. Will it tell you how to implement your latest Flash creation? Nah. But it will help you discover ways to make your site more "user friendly," and usability is an important issue in building a site that attracts--and most of all, KEEPS--visitors. I got two chapters into this book and my head was already churning with ways to make my site easier to use and understand, and therefore more "sticky." By chapter three, I'd begun a total redesign of my website, and continued working until 3 a.m. (My advice? Don't read this book unless you're willing to stay up late.) A month later, when all was said and done, I had built a better site and my stats showed that instead of the average 6 pages viewed per visit I had been experiencing previously, the site was now averaging double that with 12. All in all, not bad results for a ... investment. "Don't Make Me Think" does wander off on a few tangents that have more to do with design and less to do with usability or the psychology behind what makes visitors keep on clickin', and the fact that it wanders from its chosen topic makes it slightly less useful. Still, if finding ways to improve your website visitor's experience is one of your goals, you'll enjoy "Don't Make Me Think."
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