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Since Dont Make Me Think was first published in 2000, hundreds of thousands of Web designers and developers have relied on usability guru Steve Krugs guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design. Witty, commonsensical, and eminently practical, its one of the best-loved and most recommended books on the subject.
Now Steve returns with fresh perspective to reexamine the principles that made Dont Make Me Think a classicwith updated examples and a new chapter on mobile usability. And its still short, profusely illustratedand best of allfun to read.
If youve read it before, youll rediscover what made Dont Make Me Think so essential to Web designers and developers around the world. If youve never read it, youll see why so many people have said it should be required reading for anyone working on Web sites.
After reading it over a couple of hours and putting its ideas to work for the past five years, I can say it has done more to improve my abilities as a Web designer than any other book.
Jeffrey Zeldman, author of Designing with Web Standards

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Dont Make Me Think, Revisited

A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Steve Krug

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Dont Make Me Think, Revisited
A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Copyright 2014 Steve Krug

New Riders
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New Riders is an imprint of Peachpit, a division of Pearson Education.

Editor: Elisabeth Bayle
Project Editor: Nancy Davis
Production Editor: Lisa Brazieal
Copy Editor: Barbara Flanagan
Interior Design and Composition: Romney Lange
Illustrations by Mark Matcho and Mimi Heft
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Notice of Liability

The information in this book is distributed on an As Is basis, without warranty. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of the book, neither the author nor Peachpit shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the instructions contained in this book or by the computer software and hardware products described in it.

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Its not rocket surgery is a trademark of Steve Krug.
Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and Peachpit was aware of a trademark claim, the designations appear as requested by the owner of the trademark. All other product names and services identified throughout this book are used in editorial fashion only and for the benefit of such companies with no intention of infringement of the trademark. No such use, or the use of any trade name, is intended to convey endorsement or other affiliation with this book.

ISBN-13: 978-0-321-96551-6
ISBN-10: 0-321-96551-5

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Printed and bound in the United States of America

First Edition

To my father, who always wanted me to write a book,

My mother, who always made me feel like I could,

Melanie, who married methe greatest stroke of good fortune of my life,

and my son, Harry, who will surely write books much better than this one whenever he wants to.

Second Edition

To my big brother, Phil, who was a mensch his whole life.

Third Edition To all the peoplefrom all parts of the worldwho have been so - photo 2

Third Edition

To all the peoplefrom all parts of the worldwho have been so nice about this book for fourteen years. Your kind wordsin person, in email, and in your blogshave been one of the great joys of my life.

Especially the woman who said it made her laugh so hard that milk came out of her nose.

Contents

Throat clearing and disclaimers

Krugs First Law of Usability

Scanning, satisficing, and muddling through

Designing for scanning, not reading

Why users like mindless choices

The art of not writing for the Web

Designing navigation

The importance of getting people off on the right foot

Why most arguments about usability are a waste of time, and how to avoid them

Keeping testing simpleso you do enough of it

Welcome to the 21st Century. You may experience a slight sense of vertigo

Why your Web site should be a mensch

Just when you think youre done, a cat floats by with buttered toast strapped to its back

Making usability happen where you live

Preface: About this edition

People come and go so quickly here!

DOROTHY GALE (JUDY GARLAND) IN THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)

I wrote the first edition of Dont Make Me Think back in 2000.

By 2002, I began to get a few emails a year from readers asking (very politely) if Id thought about updating it. Not complaining; just trying to be helpful. A lot of the examples are out of date was the usual comment.

My standard response was to point out that since I wrote it right around the time the Internet bubble burst, many of the sites I used as examples had already disappeared by the time it was published. But I didnt think that made the examples any less clear.

Finally, in 2006 I had a strong personal incentive to update it. But as I reread it to see what I should change, I just kept thinking This is all still true. I really couldnt find much of anything that I thought should be changed.

Half of the royalties for the book were going to a company that no longer existed, and doing a new edition meant a new contractand twice the royaltiesfor me.

If it was a new edition, though, something had to be different. So I added three chapters that I didnt have time to finish back in 2000, hit the snooze button, and happily pulled the covers back over my head for another seven years.

2000 2006 Writing is really hard for me and Im always happy to have a - photo 3

2000

2006 Writing is really hard for me and Im always happy to have a reason not - photo 4

2006

(Writing is really hard for me, and Im always happy to have a reason not to do it. Give me a good old root canal over writing any day.)

So why now, finally, a new edition? Two reasons.

#1. Lets face it: Its old

Theres no doubt about it at this point: It feels dated. After all, its thirteen years old, which is like a hundred years in Internet time. (See? Nobody even says things like in Internet time anymore.)

Most of the Web pages I used for examples, like Senator Orrin Hatchs campaign site for the 2000 election, look really old-fashioned now.

Sites these days tend to look a lot more sophisticated, as you might expect.

wwworrinhatchcom 1999 wwworrinhatchcom 2012 Recently Ive been starting to - photo 5

www.orrinhatch.com 1999

wwworrinhatchcom 2012 Recently Ive been starting to worry that the book would - photo 6

www.orrinhatch.com 2012

Recently Ive been starting to worry that the book would finally reach a point where it felt so dated that it would stop being effective. I know it hasnt happened yet because

Picture 7 Its still selling steadily (thank heavens), without any sign of slowing down. Its even become required reading in a lot of courses, something I never expected.

New readers from all over the world continue to tweet about things theyve - photo 8 New readers from all over the world continue to tweet about things theyve learned from it.

I still keep hearing this story I gave it to my boss hoping hed finally - photo 9
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