“Don’t Make Me Think”
I have read a plethora of books on web design, and user interfaces. However, I think I’ve found my favorte book yet. It is called “Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability” by Steve Krug. Definitely worth the $20. on Amazon.com.
Krug’s down-to-earth approach forces us to look at how people really use web pages, not how we claim our users use our web pages. Some of his key points are that we don’t take the time to read pages — we scan them for what we think is important to us and that we don’t bother learning how things work–we muddle through until we figure it out. Coming to grips with such hard facts sets the stage for Web design that then produces topnotch sites.