Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited ★★★★☆

• Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
• Published: December 23, 2013 by New Riders
• ASIN: B00HJUBRPG
• Language: English

Since it was first published in 2000, hundreds of thousands of Web designers and developers have relied on usability guru Steve Krug's guide to understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design. Witty, commonsensical, and eminently practical, it's one of the best loved and most recommended books on the subject. It's a core foundational book that every Web designer must internalize to make their designs truly effective.

In this substantially revised edition, Steve returns with fresh perspective to reconsider the principles he originally laid out--commenting, amending, amplifying, and offering fresh new examples to underscore their importance. This edition adds an important new chapter on mobile as well as integrating coverage of mobile throughout. It's a complete reimagining of the concepts that made this book an instant classic.

Notable Highlights

Having thousands of good apps for a platform is a really good thing. Having millions of mediocre apps just means it’s really hard to find the good ones. [loc. 216]

If you can’t make something self-evident, you at least need to make it self-explanatory. [loc. 407]

If you can make something significantly clearer by making it slightly inconsistent, choose in favor of clarity. [loc. 648]

A good visual hierarchy saves us work by preprocessing the page for us, organizing and prioritizing its contents in a way that we can grasp almost instantly. [loc. 678]

Your objective should always be to eliminate instructions entirely by making everything self-explanatory, or as close to it as possible. When instructions are absolutely necessary, cut them back to the bare minimum. [loc. 903]