Don't Make Me Think, Revisited¶
Krug, S. (2014). Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability.
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Primes¶
- Accommodation
This sourceNew Riders. (Bibliography-only; uncited residual from HCI template.)
- Affordance
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- Contrast
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- Design Prototyping
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- Gestalt Principles
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- Human-Centered Accommodation
- A common failure is deferring accommodation to later versions ("we'll fix usability in v2") when early accommodation would have been vastly cheaper
This sourceNew Riders. Practitioner's guide to web minimalism — eliminate words, reduce navigation, design for scanning — making interface minimalism a usability imperative.
- A common failure is deferring accommodation to later versions ("we'll fix usability in v2") when early accommodation would have been vastly cheaper
- Mental Model
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- Minimalism
- Using minimalism as a design strategy — drawing on Norman's (2013) human-centered design principles and Krug's (2014) usability dictum "don't make me think"
This sourceNew Riders. Practitioner's guide to web minimalism — eliminate words, reduce navigation, design for scanning — making interface minimalism a usability imperative.
- Using minimalism as a design strategy — drawing on Norman's (2013) human-centered design principles and Krug's (2014) usability dictum "don't make me think"
- Processing Fluency
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- Progressive Disclosure
- Because the structure is shared, a practitioner who has internalized progressive disclosure in one substrate recognizes it in another: a textbook chapter that runs headline to worked example to exercise to derivation, a court filing that runs caption to relief-sought to factual background to legal argument, and a database driver that runs
query()toprepare()to cursor-level options are, structurally, the same move — a surface sufficient to act on, an honest affordance to the next layer, and the full apparatus reachable behind.This sourceTreats minimizing visible complexity and revealing depth on demand as a core information-architecture discipline.
- Because the structure is shared, a practitioner who has internalized progressive disclosure in one substrate recognizes it in another: a textbook chapter that runs headline to worked example to exercise to derivation, a court filing that runs caption to relief-sought to factual background to legal argument, and a database driver that runs
- Progressive Refinement from Core Model
- Krug's (2014) usability work — "Don't Make Me Think" — instantiates this: the baseline is the user's existing mental model; refinements are interface changes that reduce cognitive load without disrupting the baseline.
This sourceNew Riders. Practitioner's guide to web minimalism — eliminate words, reduce navigation, design for scanning — making interface minimalism a usability imperative.
- Krug's (2014) usability work — "Don't Make Me Think" — instantiates this: the baseline is the user's existing mental model; refinements are interface changes that reduce cognitive load without disrupting the baseline.
Domain-specific¶
- Cognitive Load
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- User-Centered Design
- The validation of usability and task fit against target users in realistic or representative contexts
This sourceNew Riders. Practitioner's guide to web minimalism — eliminate words, reduce navigation, design for scanning — making interface minimalism a usability imperative.
- The validation of usability and task fit against target users in realistic or representative contexts
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Links previously used in the corpus¶
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- https://archive.org/details/dontmakemethinkr0000krug ×1
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16312973W/Don't_Make_Me_Think_Revisited ×1
- https://sensible.com/dont-make-me-think/ ×1
- https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/859556499 ×1
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