I just finished reading this book today and I really thought that it is an amazing book that must be read by anyone who is involved in the making of websites. “Don’t Make Me Think” is a book that describes how web users really use our websites and how differently web designers think their websites are used when make them. When we design a website somehow we assume that the user is going to logically check everything in a web page and read the options and links from top to bottom going through them carefully from left to right, but the truth is that the majority of web users do not ‘read’ web pages, but simply ‘skim’ through them looking for anything that looks clickable or seems like the thing they are looking for. The book explains how this concept should affect the way we design websites and how our navigation, page layout, and home page design should address those real habits of web users.

Don’t Make Me Think was a very short read (less than 200 pages) with illustrations and diagrams all over the book making it easy to understand and visualize the issues it addresses in practice. The book was originally written in 2000, and the second edition of it came out in 2005, but even today it still remains to be very relevant and accurate. This is a true classic that will change the way you make and look at websites.