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Krug, Steve. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. Indianapolis, New Riders Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7897-2310-7. Purchase from Amazon.com.
Krug packs quite a bit of information into this slim volume, reinforcing some common sense ideas about web usability while standing others on their head. Although his focus here is largely on commercial sites, librarians creating web pages for their institutions or for personal professional development purposes will nevertheless find the content useful. Usability principles and ideas for testing the usability of sites are presented in a clear, user- friendly manner; this is less a title on how to design than one on how to use your existing web design knowledge to create a usable and useful site. "Before and after" screen shots of several sites reinforce the information in the text. Recommended for anyone interested in web development as more than a hobby.