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Don’t Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

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Foreword >: The Usability Expert

Introduction Read Me First: Throat Clearing and Disclaimers

Ch. 1. Don’t Make Me Think!: Krug’s First Law of Usability

“Don’t Make Me Think!”

Things that Make us Think

You can’t Make Everything Self-Evident

Why is This So Important?

Ch. 2. How We Really Use the Web: Scanning, Satisficing, and Muddling Through

Ch. 3. Billboard Design 101: Designing Pages for Scanning, Not Reading

Ch. 4. Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral?: Why Users Like Mindless Choices

Ch. 5. Omit needless Words: The Art of Not Writing for the Web

Ch. 6. Street Signs and Breadcrumbs: Designing Navigation

Ch. 7. The First Step in Recovery is Admitting that the Home Page is Beyond Your Control: Designing the Home Page

Ch. 8. “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

Ch. 9. Usability Testing on 10 Cents a Day: Keeping Testing Simple — So You do Enough of It

Ch. 10. Usability Testing: The Movie: How to do Your Own Testing

Ch. 11. On Not Throwing the Baby Out with The Dishes: Interpreting Test Results

Recommended Reading

Acknowledgments

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