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The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience
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Author: Douglas K. van Duyne, James A. Landay, Jason I. Hong
List Price: $54.99
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ISBN: 020172149X
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (22 July, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 3,033
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
Some good points, but it's better for design agencies
I manage a large corporate website, and was looking for good book which provides examples of common dilemmas faced in managing a corporate website...this book failed to answer them with any true substance. This book is geared more towards the design agencies only, not people who design and develop in-house. Also, I felt that it was very basic and covered many things I learned in my early days of web development.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Might be OK for some beginners, but wordy, and lacks depth
I bought this book so it would provide me with domain-specific pieces of usability knowledge, but it failed at that. Althought there are concrete examples, there's nothing learn from them, as the explanations are so general they almost seem canned. It just takes basic usability concepts and applies them to popular domains, without going into any depth. And you don't need another book for that. The writing style often feels like a desperate attempt to beef up the volume. This isn't a useless book for an absolute beginner, but Steve Krug's "Don't Make Think" is several times thinner, and will teach you just as much, if not more.
Rating: 5 out of 5
I n c r e d i b l e !
This is absolutely the best book I've ever read in regards to web development. I very rarely read a book word for word but this one I'm actually highlighting as I read. If you design or develop websites then this is a must read. I think it creates a nice bridge between designers and developers and puts them on the same page, creating a site for CUSTOMERS to use.
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