Steve Krug
A good look at usability in web design. Quick read with nice illustration. I got the second edition, all nice and glossy, and had I been going anywhere on an airplane, likely could have finished reading it while up in the air.
Not too much to say about it, but that it will be a nice one to have on the shelf to peek at.
The overall idea is that of common sense – make things easy for the people using your website. Test the site against actual people to see what needs improvement. Test early in the development cycle, so that feedback can quickly be integrated into the site.
Applies more to static web sites. There isn’t lots directly applying to web apps, which is more what I’m interested in, but most of it rubs off in some applicable fashion.
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