Nielsen isn't one of those people who plays around with consultancy terms, but he rather puts his ideas accross in plain english which is very, very imporant especially if english is not your mother tongue (in my case for example).

Besides the text, the book is colorful and it has a lot of detailed pictures, which in most cases are also broken down to sections later on. And in this case it's true that a picture tells more than a thousand words.

The sections and the flow of thigs are also quite well laid out, so it's easy to progress from one step to the next. Nielsen also goes and tells about Intranet design (one whole chapter) besides the regular corporate and informational sites design.

When I had read the book, I showed it to a work partner of mine and he got his whole team excited about it. Now all of them have their own copy of the book even though we have a very easy to use virtual library system in our company. Yup, you just got to have it in YOUR bookshelf, not your neighbours.

I don't normally write rave reviews on books, but this is a genuine treasure and I really recommend you to take a closer look at it.

His useit web usability column, and this book contain important and relevant information on how to create designs that anticipate how an end user will interact with your product.

The whole message is summed up on the back cover "The Practice of Simplicity" - but simple from the end user's perspective means rigorous analysis and usability testing from the designers perspective.