Book Byte #31 "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug
A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
📣 Curious Quotes from the Author:
“If you can’t make something self-evident, you at least need to make it self-explanatory.”
“The most important thing you can do is to understand the basic principle of eliminating question marks.”
“Clear, well-thought-out navigation is one of the best opportunities a site has to create a good impression.”
📚 Cognition of the Book’s Big Idea:
Usability prioritizes the visitor, making it as easy as possible to find information on a website. You can verify that your website provides an excellent user experience by running simple tests at each stage of the development process.
🛠️Fixing the Tech Industry
Today’s websites still have most of the same elements when the web 1.0 was invented. usually a menu bar with all the sections mapped out. Mobile definitely changed the format a bit, but for the most part, the basic elements are the same.
The interesting thing to focus on now is what AI will do to usability. Research will be done less and less, clicking around the internet. Behavior is already changing rapidly '“Chatgpt, give me 10 reasons I should seek VC funding for my business)
Conversational Computing will be the next big thing of the 2020’s. It’ll be interesting to see how long until Google, once we thought untouchable, will eventually be.
🤝 Collaborate with others with this Social Media Prompt:
How do you prefer a website to look? What naturally appeals to you and the instant you click you say to yourself “I like this website a lot!”?