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Summary: Designing Web Usability
Comment: This book is a great primer for the novice Webmaster who wants to start obtaining top SEO position. It is also a helpful update for the experienced Webmaster. One of many building blocks for the Interney-savvy Internet marketing professional.
William C. Head
Attorney at Law
Atlanta, GA
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Summary: Outdated and no news at all
Comment: You wont find anything in this book what general common sense already told you.
Besides it's outoutdated and for this reason all examples are useless.
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Summary: Very nice book
Comment: this is a very good book about web usability and its not a complex kind of book, you start reading it and u dont want to stop it untill you finish it!
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Summary: Not quite what I expected..
Comment: As an avid read of Mr.Nielsen's blog and his website, I figured this book would comprise the "Bible of Web Design". Unfortunately, I was a bit let down.
His book does cover many aspects of web design and usability. In fact, he does a very good job at pointing out examples of bad web design. He uses full page pictures analyzing pages and their faults. Additionally, he lays out some ground rules for website design but many of them are redundnant and obvious to those who have designed sites in the past and read his blog/site.
Today though, this book is getting a tad out of date. It was written prior to the Web 2.0 boom and the usability gains included with AJAX and similar technologies.
This book does a good job at educating you that you ought not make websites like many people make their myspace pages (moving backgrounds, sounds onload, etc) but does not really provide any new information on how someone ought to approach new ideas in usability. For a beginner in web design and page layout, I would recommend this book. For someone who has been doing it for a long time I would pass this by.
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Summary: Simple IS usually better
Comment: Please people don't design incredibly complex sites with over the top graphics that take an hour(feels like) to download even on broadband! I encounter this everyday and can't imagine what it must be like for those on dial-up, which is still most of the internet user base. Designers like to design and justify their high paying jobs by these crazy sites that simply drive me nuts. I recently tried looking for sunglasses on the Ray Ban site and Holy [...]! What a pain in the [...]! I finally went to a small reseller site where I could actually see the glasses quickly and make a purchase. The Ray Ban site I'm sure cost a fortune and is pretty but NOT user friendly. Web site designers need to remember that these sites are for people to find products and services, not to win design contests. My ex is a graphic designer(excuse me...User Interface Experience) for a very well know company and I know how they think. The more elaborate the better, we can charge clients more! KISS
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