don’t make me think

My girlfriend gave me the classic book Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug after her trip from Singapore. I’ve been having a hard time finding one here in Manila for the longest time. I love my girlfriend

Twas short and sweet. Was able to consume it in a few hours. Concise but very meaningful. Nice seeing that there are a couple of things that I designed (or eventually designed) for the site that made sense to a usability expert.

• Less words. Less noise. Be concise. Design like doing a billboard.
• Stick to conventions as much as you can
• Make clickable stuff obvious

I guess a lot things fell into place after I decided to go minimalist. Minimalist noisyheads is my oxymoron for the day.

Except, I guess I need to improve a lot on navigation. My initial plan is to use a flat hierarchy. I guess that’s just being lazy. What should be done is a good way to group related pages and at the same time show where the user is at with respect to the hierarchy. Never ever make the user feel she/he is lost in your site and have no way back. Breadcrumbs as Mr. Krug  recommends should be more of a complimenting feature. Nothing beats a strategically functioning web menu. Funny how most of his samples come from Amazon.com. What a fan boy. Tee dee!