Summary Week1

Introduction Read me first: Throat clearing and disclaimers.
“The truth” about the right way to design Web site.
Design web site is really to depend but there are a few ways help you when you design it.
Predictions for the future of the web
(a) Most of the predictions are certainly wrong
(b) The things that will turn out to be important will come as a surprise

Chapter 1. Don’t make me think: Krug’s first law of usability
Look as simple as possible but not lose detail also, Web page can make us stop and think unnecessarily. When you create a site, your job is to get of question marks.
The main point is that the tradeoffs should usually be skewed further in the direction of ”obvious” than we care to think and needless source of question marks over people’s heads is links and buttons that aren’t obviously clickable. As a user, I should never have to devote a millisecond of thought to whether things are clickable or not.
Before you create your site, you should think visitors to a site should not spend their time thinking about. One of approach is to make list like
Where am I?
Where should I begin?
Where did they put_?
What are the most important things on this page ?
Why did they call it that?
Look at the average user. Settle for self-explanatory when you create something complicated.
In conclusion, the best way to do creating pages that are self evident, or at least self- explanatory.

Chapter 2. How we really use the Web: Scanning, satisfying, and muddling.
Follow three facts about real-world Web use are effective Web pages .
1. We do not read pages we scan them for saving time. What we see when we look at a Web page depend on what we have in mind, but it’s usually just a fraction of what’s on the page.
2. We do not make optimal choices. We satisfies. When we are designing pages, we tend to assume that users will scan the page, consider all of the available options, and choose the best one.
3. We do not figure out how things work. One of the thing that becomes obvious as soon as you do any usability testing.