TY - GEN AU - Krug, Steve TI - Don't make me think revisited a common sense approach to web usability SN - 9780321965516 U1 - 745.401 PY - 2014/// PB - New Riders N1 - Contents Preface: About this edition vi Introduction: Read me first Throat clearing and disclaimers 2 Guiding Principles Chapter 1. Don’t make me think! 10 Krug’s First Law of Usability Chapter 2. How we really use the Web 20 Scanning, Satisficing and mudding through Chapter 3. Billboard Design 101 28 Designing for scanning, not reading Chapter 4. Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral? 42 Why Users like mindless choices Chapter 5. Omit needless words 48 The art of not writing for the web Things you need to get right Chapter 6. Street signs and Breadcrumbs 54 Designing Nevigation Chapter 7. The Big Bang Theory of Web Design 84 The importance of getting people off on the right foot Making Sure you got them Right Chapter 8. “The Farmer and the Cowman Should Be Friends” 102 Why most arguments about usability are a waste of time and how to avoid them Chapter 9. Usability testing on 10 cents a day 110 Keeping testing simple – so you do enough of it Chapter 10. Mobile: It’s not just a city in Alabama anymore 142 Welcome to the 21st century You may experience a slight sense of vertigo Chapter 11. Usability as common courtesy 164 Why your website should be a Mensch Chapter 12. Accessibility and you 172 Just when you think you’re done, a cat floats by with buttered toast strapped to its back Chapter 13. Guide for the perplexed 182 Making usability happen where you live Acknowledgments 192 Index 196 ER -