Editing Don't Make Me Think

{{Short description|2000 book by Steve Krug}}
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{{Infobox book
| name    = Don't Make Me Think
| image         = Don't Make Me Think.jpg
| caption       = First edition
| author        = [[Steve Krug]]
| cover_artist  = 
| country       = [[United States]]
| language      = [[English language|English]]
| genre         = Web Design and Usability
| published = 2000 [[Peachpit|New Riders Press]]
| pages         = 216<ref name="third" />
}}

'''''Don't Make Me Think''''' is a book by [[Steve Krug]] about [[human–computer interaction]] and [[web usability]].<ref name="third">{{Cite book|last=Krug|first= Steve|title=Don't make me think, revisited: a common sense approach to Web usability|year= 2014|isbn=978-0-321-96551-6|edition=Third |location=San Francisco, California|oclc=859556499}}</ref> The book's premise is that a good [[software]] program or web site should let users accomplish their intended tasks as easily and directly as possible. Krug points out that people are good at [[satisficing#Decision making|satisficing]], or taking the first available solution to their problem, so design should take advantage of this. He frequently cites [[Amazon.com]] as an example of a well-designed web site that manages to allow high-quality interaction, even though the web site gets bigger and more complex every day.

The book is intended to exemplify [[concision|brevity]] and focus. The goal, according to the book's introduction, was to make a text that could be read by an executive on a two-hour airplane flight.

Originally published in 2000, the book was revised in 2005, and again 2013 to add a section about mobile UX, and has sold more than 700,000 copies.

In 2010, the author published a sequel, ''Rocket Surgery Made Easy'', which explains how anyone working on a web site, mobile app, or desktop software can do their own usability testing to ensure that what they're building will be usable.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Krug|first= Steve|title=Rocket surgery made easy: the do-it-yourself guide to finding and fixing usability problems|date=2010|publisher=New Riders|isbn=978-0-321-65729-9|location=Berkeley, California|oclc=499491845}}</ref>

The book has been referenced in college courses<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tariq |first1=Hira |title=DGMA 2183-P01 Fundamentals of Interactive Media Spring 2017 |url=https://www.pvamu.edu/sites/hb2504/courses/Spring%202018/DGMA%202183-P01.pdf |publisher=PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY |access-date=8 February 2022}}</ref> and online courses on usability.<ref>{{cite web |title=Don't Make me Think by Steve Krug (Book Summary) |url=https://www.commonlounge.com/discussion/652ef0d3e72b4e1fb1ed30365528511c |website=Common Lounge |access-date=8 February 2022}}</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.sensible.com/dmmt.html Book description on author's website], www.sensible.com

[[Category:Human–computer interaction]]
[[Category:2000 non-fiction books]]


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