Unit 1 Reading

Chapter 1:

Chapter 1 in the book Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug was pretty much an introduction to how we should think when designing websites for other users. Pretty much what i got out of it was don't make them think. A good site has a lot more to do with how user friendly and easy it is for for the user to navigate your site. Making a site that is to complicated for someone can result in them loosing interest, wasting their time, and making the company your working for look bad. SO design the site your working on with user and workload always in mind.

Chapter 2:

Chapter 2 was about the way that people actually use the internet in this day and age. It made me realize that people really don't care about all the options and what not on sites. They just care about getting to the end result quicker. Which in turn made me realize that when i do design sites i should be focusing on making it as simple as i possibly can. Doing this will make the user feel smarter and hopefully will make them want to come back and use the site i have designed. This chapter just really puts into perspective how naive people are when it comes to how much work is put into the usability of sites. Even though they might not care it should still be given credit in my opinion.