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"Lost my time reading it."
Im a quite advenced web developer, i bought the book for discipline, you know, one have to read different opinions, but this was a bad time spending to buy it, espect it and reading it.

Too much pre-self-appologies and redundant talking at the begining of the book, those 'predictions' about when will be possible to read long texts on line... completely out of place.

Writing is disorganized, plenty of drifting away from the subject. I guess that Jakob Nielsen is a grat web developer, he knows many technical things about it, but he should not write books. Or he might take some lessons about "making some text shorter", -if you can say somthing using two words, don't use three. Usability is just about to make things easy to read and understand with minimum effort, this short-lettered, plenty-of-words-pages and plenty of pages book is exactly to learn things you should not do when trying to reach for usability.

Im sorry Mr. Nielsen, its dissappointing.

"Could be better"
The author offers critiques, but rarely offers a better idea or redesign. It's the same with his other book about home page usability. This is a severe shortcoming.

A related problem is that some of his criticisms are just unfounded or - in my humble opinion - just plain wrong. And I'm coming to the conclusion that that's why he doesn't offer solutions - a web site is a tradeoff between competing goals. It's actually not that difficult to find "problems" with sites; it's much more difficult to fix those problems and find that sweet spot.

"A bit outdated"
It is amazing how a book that was useful when it was published becomes obsolete so quickly. Many of the ideas presented are basically OK, but some are definitively ourdated. The Internet and web browsing experiences have change our perceptions of what works and what does not.

"In general..."
General ideas are quite good...

"Web sites for dummies"
After reading this book I came up with a better title for it:
"Web sites for dummies".

But then again, should web dummies really read this book ?

The content of this book is made of a series of advices about
organizing your web space. Most good advices in this book are already available (for free) on the W3 markup validator (validator.w3.org) or on some other W3 Consortium page (w3.org).

Other advices are just worthless, like this little jewel:
"[...] sound effects can be used as an extra dimension in the user interface [...] the progress of a file download could be indicated by the sound of water pouring into a glass".

Surely that will clarify it all! Should a flushing sound be played as well ?
I don't see how such a sound could actually give information about the progress of a download.

People really serious about designing user interfaces should try one of Jef Raskin's books, like "The Humane Interface" (ISBN: 0201379376) which introduces quantification techniques of a user's pain when manipulating an interface.

 

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What our customer's say!

"Outdated and no news at all", You wont find anything in this book what general common sense already told you.
Besides it's outoutdated and for this reason all examples are useless.

"Very nice book", this is a very good book about web usability and its not a complex kind of book, you start reading it and u dont want to stop it untill you finish it!

"Not quite what I expected..", As an avid read of Mr.Nielsen's blog and his website, I figured this book would comprise the "Bible of Web Design". Unfortunately, I was a bit let down.

His book does cover many aspects of web design and usability. In fact, he does a very good job at pointing out examples of bad web design. He uses full page pictures analyzing pages and their faults. Additionally, he lays out some ground rules for website design but many of them are redundnant and obvious to those who have designed sites in the past and read his blog/site.

Today though, this book is getting a tad out of date. It was written prior to the Web 2.0 boom and the usability gains included with AJAX and similar technologies.

This book does a good job at educating you that you ought not make websites like many people make their myspace pages (moving backgrounds, sounds onload, etc) but does not really provide any new information on how someone ought to approach new ideas in usability. For a beginner in web design and page layout, I would recommend this book. For someone who has been doing it for a long time I would pass this by.

"Simple IS usually better", Please people don't design incredibly complex sites with over the top graphics that take an hour(feels like) to download even on broadband! I encounter this everyday and can't imagine what it must be like for those on dial-up, which is still most of the internet user base. Designers like to design and justify their high paying jobs by these crazy sites that simply drive me nuts. I recently tried looking for sunglasses on the Ray Ban site and Holy [...]! What a pain in the [...]! I finally went to a small reseller site where I could actually see the glasses quickly and make a purchase. The Ray Ban site I'm sure cost a fortune and is pretty but NOT user friendly. Web site designers need to remember that these sites are for people to find products and services, not to win design contests. My ex is a graphic designer(excuse me...User Interface Experience) for a very well know company and I know how they think. The more elaborate the better, we can charge clients more! KISS

"It's outdated but you can skim through it", He offers some good pointers for web standards and usability such as providing more user content and less fluff. Making it easier to navigate around a website, helping the user realize where they are within a website makes sense. Even if you have a search engine, if the website is poorly designed/described, a search option won't be of any use to the user at all.

There were some points that I didn't agree with and it was because this book is outdated. Some points such as leaving links blue, removing search capabilities on extranet websites but having this feature is essential for intranet websites is a bit contradictory. Having the option to search is beneficial to web surfers of extranet and intranet sites. "Web design still needs to be grounded in a strong sense of structure and navigation support." (224) Using a wider search box to illicit users to enter more words in their query, it's actually better to focus on specific keywords when searching.

If the information were "common sense," then there wouldn't be a need to write a book about it. Bad websites wouldn't exist and we would live in a dandy world, chock full of great navigational websites. But that's not reality and there does need to be a set of updated web standards out there for web designers/developers to go by. There is some chaos out there but at least this book provides a foundation for people to begin developing user-friendly websites. "Overall usability is increased by consistency."



 
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"A good book that could be condensed more efficiently", This book summarizes what Jakob Nielsen has been trying to tell us for years about building usable software. Here he applies it to the web. This is probably the best book out there for learning to create web interfaces that won't send users clicking away after two seconds. My only complaint about the book is that he keeps reiterating the same core points over and over again, chapter after chapter. If it's so simple, then why am I reading 500 pages? A good book, but probably could have been condensed more efficiently.

"Good pricipals, but needs to be updated", The general ideas in the book are quite good, and should knows to all web developers, even if they choose to ignore them. The only problem I had with the book is that it was released in '99, and in some cases, it shows it's age. In today's environment, we usually don't need to worry as much about 56k modems, or 800x600 screens.

The ideas of a fluid design and response time, however, are still quite valid.

"Good book", It's one of the must-have books for any webdesigner. You can find it quite cheap, so no reason not to buy it. Check out the authors online articles too.

"The Right Usability Principles Endure", Nielsen points out in other studies that usability principles that hit the mark endure the test of time. This particular book is evidence of that, although a second edition targeted at updating examples and discussing recent trends in Web technology (e.g. syndication, the rise of portable devices, the proliferation of broadband Internet access) would be particularly helpful.

If you're short on time and resources, and can only read one book on Web design theories and principles (not coding), this is THE book.

Nielsen breaks Web usability into manageable chunks, starting at the page level, building to site-wide issues of navigation and search.

Sections on intranet design and international audiences are a good introduction, but Nielsen's other work (c.f. www.useit.com) do a much better job of illustrating important design considerations in these areas.

"This is the bible", You may not follow all of Jacob Neilson's guidelines, but you can't start any website construction or redesign project without reading this book.

 
 
 

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