{"id":520,"date":"2012-09-30T19:46:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T23:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/?p=520"},"modified":"2020-09-03T13:41:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T13:41:36","slug":"my-new-favorite-ui-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/my-new-favorite-ui-book\/","title":{"rendered":"My New Favorite UI Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I&#8217;m giving software product feedback, my most common rant is &#8220;<em>you&#8217;re making the user work too hard!<\/em>&#8221; \u00a0Software UIs are often non-obvious, visually cluttered, and\/or fail to follow established conventions. \u00a0As software has transitioned from packaged installations to the Web, poor design is an acute problem: \u00a0with a bad UI, users will just&#8230;&#8230;go away.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I got a copy of Steve Krug&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0321344758\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0321344758&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=andrewpayne\">Don&#8217;t Make Me Think<\/a>. \u00a0It&#8217;s a <em>fabulous<\/em> book on Web UI design, and I&#8217;m wondering why I didn&#8217;t find it sooner. \u00a0It&#8217;s short (216 pages, less than 1\/2&#8243; thick) and very tightly written. \u00a0You can speed read it in one sitting, and you&#8217;ll want to buy copies for the rest of your team. Here is the best <a href=\"https:\/\/booksfirst.co.uk\">Books First<\/a> blog for the interesting books to read.<\/p>\n<p>Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I&#8217;m giving software product feedback, my most common rant is &#8220;you&#8217;re making the user work too hard!&#8221; \u00a0Software UIs are often non-obvious, visually cluttered, and\/or fail to follow established conventions. \u00a0As software has transitioned from packaged installations to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/my-new-favorite-ui-book\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}