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Author Krug, Steve

Title Don't make me think! : a common sense approach to Web usability / Steve Krug
Edition 2nd ed
Published Berkeley, Calif : New Riders Pub., ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 201 pages) : color illustrations
Contents Guiding principles. Don't make me think! : Krug's first law of usability ; How we really use the Web : scanning, satisficing, and muddling through ; Billboard design 101 : designing pages for scanning, not reading ; Animal, vegetable, or mineral? : why users like mindless choices ; Omit needless words : the art of not writing for the Web -- Things you need to get right. Street signs and breadcrumbs : designing navigation ; The first step in recovery is admitting that the home page is beyond your control : designing the home page -- Making sure you got them right. "The farmer and the cowman should be friends" : why most Web design team arguments about usability are a waste of time, and how to avoid them ; Usability testing on 10 cents a day : why user testing--done simply enough--is the cure for all your site's ills -- Larger concerns and outside influences. Usability as common courtesy : why your Web site should be a mensch ; Accessibility, Cascading Style Sheets, and you : just when you think you're done, a cat floats by with buttered toast strapped to its back ; Help! My boss wants me to ---- : when bad design decisions happen to good people
Summary Yesterday's Web looked far different from today's Web, and tomorrow's Web will look more different still. Amidst all of this change, however, one aspect of Web use remains the same: The sites that offer the best, easiest, most intuitive experience are the ones people visit again and again. To ensure that your sites provide that experience, this guide from usability guru Krug distills his years of on-the-job experience into a practical primer on the do's and don'ts of good Web design. The second edition of this classic adds three new chapters that explain why people really leave Web sites, how to make sites usable and accessible, and the art of surviving executive design whims, plus a new preface and updated recommended reading.--From publisher description
Analysis CSS
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-191) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
© 2006 Steve Krug 2006
English
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Subject Web sites -- Design.
Web site development.
Writing.
Information display systems.
Editing.
Publishers and publishing.
Internet
Writing
Publishing
Data Display
User-Computer Interface
writing (processes)
publishing.
editing.
Web sites -- Design.
Web site development.
Writing
Publishers and publishing
Information display systems
Editing
Web site development
Web sites -- Design
Benutzerorientierung
Gestaltung
Web-Seite
Usabilidade de software.
WORLD WIDE WEB.
INTERNETS.
WEBSITES.
HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACE.
COMMUNICATION NETWORKS.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006277850
ISBN 0321344758
9780321344755
9780321648785
0321648781
9780321668608
032166860X
9781282430570
1282430572
9786612430572
6612430575
Other Titles Common sense approach to Web usability