Don’t make me think (and other lessons for web design)

“Don’t Make Me Think” by Steve Krug is one of my favourite books. I strongly recommend it to web analysts and data scientist.

In that spirit – here are a few of my favourite interfaces:

Commonalities:

• Real choices about what to put in and leave out were made – in other words – they are designed. They were not assembled.

• Not every surface is crammed with stuff. Just because nature abhors a vacuum doesn’t mean you need to cram something into every pixel.

• It’s obvious what everything does.

Simple can be functional.

What are your nominations?

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I’m Christopher Berry.
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