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Don’t Make Me Think – A Common Sense Approach To Web Usability, by Steve Krug

This is a full title of this great great great book I read !

The title really says everything about the book. It is very easy to read, once you start reading it, you can’t stop till you get to the last page.
It is also illustrated with real life examples.

Unlike other books that covers web usability topic, this one has is the smallest if we compare number of pages, but in everything else – this book is far greater then any other I read.

Book is straight-forward and unlike other books it’s content is usable now and wiull be usable for years and years from now.

There are no sentences beginning with “According to reasearch…” or “As the Gartner says…”, no, the author actually wrote his own real-life experience, problems he saw with his customers, …

Here’s something I find most usable from the book:

There are 3 elements on your homepage you should give the highest priority during the project design:
- logo – new visitor should know where he came to
- tagline – visitor should know what is he doing “here”
- where to start? – OK, so I know where I am and what I can do “here”, but where should I start with this page?

One other element is  also very important – search engine. Why should you give high priority to search engine functionality? It’s simple – if a customer doesn’t find what he is looking for he wont buy it !

There are offcourse many other usable text in this book, so I would recommend reading it.

Here’s a homepage to the author of this book –  www.sensible.com