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A review by jmichaelward
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (2nd Edition) by Steve Krug
4.0
I thought I had already marked this read on Goodreads, but apparently I hadn't...
I read the second edition of this book a year or two ago and got a lot from it, enough that I regularly reference it to people when I think it's appropriate to refer them to it. I just picked up the 3rd edition of the book and read through it again.
Some of the ideas in the book run contrary to some emerging web standards that are described in the North project on Github (particularly when it comes to thinking of websites as a collection of pages - see https://github.com/Snugug/north for more details), but on the whole I think this book is an enormously valid document and includes many easy-to-implement ideas to get developers started down the road of building more usable and accessible sites.
It's a great read, and more importantly, it's short and easy to digest. Some of it just doesn't seem to hold up quite so well, even with the update, which is why it only gets 4 stars in this reader's mind. Still, I think everyone who works in the web design or development fields should give it a read.
I read the second edition of this book a year or two ago and got a lot from it, enough that I regularly reference it to people when I think it's appropriate to refer them to it. I just picked up the 3rd edition of the book and read through it again.
Some of the ideas in the book run contrary to some emerging web standards that are described in the North project on Github (particularly when it comes to thinking of websites as a collection of pages - see https://github.com/Snugug/north for more details), but on the whole I think this book is an enormously valid document and includes many easy-to-implement ideas to get developers started down the road of building more usable and accessible sites.
It's a great read, and more importantly, it's short and easy to digest. Some of it just doesn't seem to hold up quite so well, even with the update, which is why it only gets 4 stars in this reader's mind. Still, I think everyone who works in the web design or development fields should give it a read.