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

by Steve Krug
October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 44m
English
New Riders
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Chapter 7. The First Step in Recovery is Admitting that the Home Page is Beyond Your Control: Designing the Home Page

 

Lucy, you got some ’splainin’ to do.

 
 --DESI ARNAZ, AS RICKY RICARDO

Designing a Home page often reminds me of the 50’s TV game show Beat the Clock.

Each contestant would listen patiently while emcee Bud Collyer explained the “stunt” she had to perform. For instance, “You have 45 seconds to toss five of these water balloons into the colander strapped to your head.”

The stunt always looked tricky, but doable with a little luck.

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

Bud Collyer offers words of encouragement to a plucky contestant

But then just as the contestant was ready to ...

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