Notes on Steve Krug's 'Don't Make Me Think'

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I am working my way through Jeff Atwoods reading list and finally got around to reading Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug. This is one of the best books that I have read in quite some time. His writing style is amazing, and there is so much useful content in the book that I don’t even want to spoil it by talking about it here. As a completely unrelated side note, Steve Krug is a Usability Professional, the last time I read about this specific term was in Cory Doctorow’s Eastern Standard Tribe where the main character had the same career.

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I am one of those strange people that read the bibliography, further reading section, and hang on to each recommendation. This is partially why my current reading list is too long to even look at. With that being said, a couple books that I plan to read per Krug’s recommendation are:

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