Customer Rating: 
Summary: Really serious about reaching the whole net?
Comment: If you really want to reach everyone on the net without alienating anyone, this is your gospel. If your creative interests and impressing yourself and your friends are more important, don't waste your time on this book.
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Summary: Expensive, not polished, but priceless
Comment: Bad designers beware - here is a lucid eye-opening analysis of making the web useful and not just pretty. Most web sites and design books are based on one person's creative or technical skill using special effects on the web - Nielsen bases his reflections on testing, real people, and experience. Special effects without content and without considering the ultimate user of the information is useless. Many nice-looking web sites are good for one visit only, this book will help you keep people coming back.The price is high, but I'd pay twice the price for more of the same.
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Summary: a must read for all web builders
Comment: we are building lots of sites and pages everyday, are our users happy with our efforts? the practice of simplicity, what a right point to remember before broadband internet becomes popular. simple (but not raw or crude) is beautiful enough.
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Summary: Disappointing level of workmanship by publisher
Comment: A good-looking book with lots of illustrations and nice layout concept. Good, commonsense information about what makes a Web page/site easy and pleasant for the user. However, I was really distressed to find glaring proofreading-type errors---given the price of this book, I don't expect captions to be cut off in the middle and important words to be left out of sentences. Mr. Nielsen needs to find a publisher that employs PROOFREADERS. I will be attempting to return it--not because of the content, but because there was such a discrepancy between the price and the workmanship (or lack thereof).
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Summary: Highly recommended reading for any web developer
Comment: This book will quickly give you the information you need to design a web site well. It is part of a two book series with this one focussing on the "how" and the next one on the "why". Sure, Nielsen mentions the results of research and user tests throughout the book, but doesn't dwell on it. This information is just used as supporting evidence for his design points.It is fair to say that the material in this book is common sense. While you read it, everything Nielsen says makes perfect sense, but look around the web a bit and you'll find many sites that violate these basic principles. Other books make the same points, but I haven't come across any that do it as well as this one -- by backing the points up with research and several examples. If you are looking for one web usability book to buy, this is it. Some reviews clearly feel the other way, but I think the book itself is a case study in usability. The layout of each page is create and the screenshots are very clear and well captioned.
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