![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Nielsen, Jakob - Designing Web Usability
Sat, Oct. 14th, 2006 09:24 pmWhy yes, I am trying to clear my unblogged books list, why do you ask?
Anyway, I read this ages ago, so this is going to be very vague.
Jakob Nielsen is pretty much the god of web usability (check out his site). I like web usability. This interest arose largely because websites that are pretty but completely unusable are one of my giant hot buttons, particularly if I am attempting to give said website money. This is probably the textbook on web usability and designing for web usability, and it covers all the topics in enough detail to be interesting, but not enough to be overwhelming.
This book is a little dated as well, but all the principles still hold.
I'd rec this for anyone interested in the topic, but not for those of you who aren't, as opposed to Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, which is just a really fun and fast read (with bonus footnotes covering immolation!).
Anyway, I read this ages ago, so this is going to be very vague.
Jakob Nielsen is pretty much the god of web usability (check out his site). I like web usability. This interest arose largely because websites that are pretty but completely unusable are one of my giant hot buttons, particularly if I am attempting to give said website money. This is probably the textbook on web usability and designing for web usability, and it covers all the topics in enough detail to be interesting, but not enough to be overwhelming.
This book is a little dated as well, but all the principles still hold.
I'd rec this for anyone interested in the topic, but not for those of you who aren't, as opposed to Steve Krug's Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, which is just a really fun and fast read (with bonus footnotes covering immolation!).
Tags: