Recommended Reading
Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug is a fantastic book on website usability. I design websites on the side, and the guidelines set out here help tremendously.
Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug is a fantastic book on website usability. I design websites on the side, and the guidelines set out here help tremendously.
James Clayton said
Dude, “Don’t make me think” was written for amateurs. It says the same message repeated- keep it easy to use! If you have 20 years of experience and this helped you, then you have no idea how to code and should step away slowly from the PC before you do something weird like increment a null pointer or try to debug a bugless program.
jlcfly said
How do you make the leap from easy to use interfaces to null pointers? The book is not a lesson in programming. It’s about designing a site that an average person can use without getting frustrated.
I WISH developers who worked on the online banking site my wife uses had read this. Talk about a hack in navigations. She got so frustrated with such poor design that I had to figure it out and teach her how to use it. It should have been a lot more obvious.
Don’t equate programming with UI design. The two are not even on the same plane.