After reading the first paragraph in “Don’t Make Me Think”
by Steve Krug I realized the first law of usability for any website is “Don’t
Make Me Think”. It surprised me that how a simple everyday talk sentence can be
the usability law. Indeed, it makes so much sense when it gets to navigating
around websites to look for useful information because people don’t want to
think much to navigate through the website. The lesser user have to think, the
more users that website will get. In order to achieve that “Don’t Make Me Think”
goal, designers have to get rid of questions they think their users may have
because it will just make the website more complicated. Simple name to
categories will aid users navigate better through the website. In chapter 2
Krug shows the harsh-but-true reality of the hard work designers put into
making a website. People just skim and scan through and choose the link that
catches their eyes the most no matter if it has great information or
interesting stuff. It is true the people scan and look through a website really
quickly, but it is only when they try to find stuff. After having found their
stuff, people tend to settle/slow down more to look for great content. I agree
with Krug that breaking the website into words or phrases that match what user
looking for; however, it is hard to create that website because different users
will expect different things from a website. It is best to create a website
will good and catchy name because people will tend to click on it more. Also,
people don’t spend time on figuring out how thing should work. They tend to muddling
around to find what they need as I do the same thing all the time without even
realize it. These two chapters are really helpful for me because it helps me
realize many things that I need to do to make a better website. It is also fun
and easy to read with interesting visual that backs up and restates the crucial
idea of the book “Don’t Make Me Think.”
Some Inspiration Portfolio website
1/ Rob Young: http://www.eisforeffort.com/
2/ Daryl Campbell: http://www.madelikeme.com/
3/ Sebastian Nikolaou: http://www.sebdesign.eu/
Concept Statement
(Will be updated later)
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