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Customer Rating:      Summary: UI and Design living together, mass hysteria!!! Comment: Kudos to Steve Krug for finding the common ground between usability and design. Avoiding the pitfall of swaying too far in favor of either medium, Krug found the middle ground where practical usability meets sensible design in order to produce quality web sites. His focus on thinking like your user, and make a page/site that will make sense for them, is so simple it is brilliant.
Customer Rating:      Summary: A complete 2 hour lesson on web usability and how to test it Comment: Just read it. The best investment for anyone who has any role on website development.
Customer Rating:      Summary: UI and Design living together, mass hysteria!!! Comment: Kudos to Steve Krug for finding the common ground between usability and design. Avoiding the pitfall of swaying too far in favor of either medium, Krug found the middle ground where practical usability meets sensible design in order to produce quality web sites. His focus on thinking like your user, and make a page/site that will make sense for them, is so simple it is brilliant.
Customer Rating:      Summary: Don't Make Me Think...piece o' cake. Comment: Although the ideas and conventions may seem common sense, you would be suprised at how many sites fail to "see the light". This book "sheds some light" on the issues of web design that are sometimes so simple that they may be overlooked. Steve Krug also adds humor and whit to his chapters, which are short and sweet. Don't Make Me Think is an easy read and should not be neglected, especially if you are new to the "WWW".
Customer Rating:      Summary: This book is the Tops! Comment: I bought this book because I thought it would help me tame my own hobby site...; all I can say is wow, wow, wow.
Steve Krug tells you everything you need to know about effective interface design, from the most valuable point of view of all ... that of the user.
I'm really fired up about applying all SK's killer interface ideas to my own site. The only problem is, he's made me realize how badly laid out my site is at the moment. My re-design is going to take flipping years.
But anyway, this book is a classic. I have already passed it around my day-job firm's web team and studio, and they all agree that this is the best tome they have read on the subject to date.
If you only buy one book on web site usability, make it this cracker. Great advice, fab typesetting and you should easily be able to read it over your commute (I did).
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