In several past past episodes, Aaron and Michael have made references to Steve’s Krug’s seminal book on usability Don’t Make Me Think. This week’s episode takes a look at that book, and reviews several of the concepts and principles that it introduces. From how people use sites, to how you can test them on a budget, we look at a number of ways you can work usability into your design and development.

Followup Resources

• This is the final straw, evil Microsoft. Making private GitHub repos free? You’ve gone too far

• 8 Ways to Make Usability Testing Simple
• Advanced Common Sense
• Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition)
• Fast and Simple Usability Testing
• How to Conduct Usability Testing Easily & Quickly
• How to Conduct Usability Testing from Start to Finish
• Usability.gov
• UsabilityHub