Usability

Website Usability Books Worth Owning

Recently I had read a post over at 456BereaStreet.com that pointed me in the direction of a few web usability books that might be worth reading. So, being the impressionable young wannabe web designer that I am, I popped over to a little site called Amazon.com and purchased a couple.

The first I picked up is entitled “Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Aproach to Web Usability” written by Steve Krug, one of the few usability geniuses of our time. I have to admit, I’ve learned alot from this book already. The concepts that he covers are so blatantly obvious that you end up saying “Duh, I knew that”, but you’ve never actually implemented it in your site design before. This book really does take a “Common Sense Approach” to web usability, as the title suggests. The chapters are short and to the point, full of great examples along with some optimized reworkings of some of our favorite sites.

There was another usability book in that same order from Amazon.com entitle “Building Accessible Websites” by Joe Clark. I haven’t yet had a chance to dig into this one yet. I’m just learning too much from Steve Krug right now. But rest assured I will be certain to shed a little light on this one for you as well. From the reviews I’ve read so far, this book is supposed to be everything that “Don’t Make Me Think” already is.

2 Responses to “Website Usability Books Worth Owning”

1. Josh says:

   October 12, 2005 at 7:34 am

   It looks pretty sweet to me, when do I get to dive in?

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2. tim_c@n't_r3id says:

   October 12, 2005 at 9:58 am

   This “Amazon dot Com”, is it a new site? They sell books? What a novel idea!

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