Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited a common Sense Approach to Web Usability Steve Krug

Elliott
for always
renewing her spirits after another long day working with me had drained
them.
Barbara Flanagan
, copy editor and dear old friend. To paraphrase an old
joke, “Barbara has never been wrong about a point of grammar in her life.
Well, there was that one time when she 
thought
she was wrong, but she

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wasn’t.” Before you write me about some error in usage, be aware that
Barbara long ago beat you to it, and then said, “But it’s your voice. Your
book. Your call.” That’s generosity of spirit.
Nancy Davis
, editor-in-chief at Peachpit, who stepped away from that desk
just far enough to be my 
consigliere
and champion. She’s one of those rare
people whose praise means about ten times as much as normal praise. I will
deeply miss having an excuse to chat with her about her ornithology-lovin’
boys.
Nancy Ruenzel, Lisa Brazieal
, 
Romney Lange
, 
Mimi Heft
, 
Aren
Straiger
, 
Glenn Bisignani
, and all the other smart, nice, talented,
hardworking people at Peachpit who have been so supportive (often while
biting their tongues, I’m sure).
My reviewers—
Caroline Jarrett
and 
Whitney Quesenbery
—who
volunteered some of their precious time to keep me from appearing foolish.
In another time, the right description for them would have been “fellow
travelers.” We see eye to eye on many things, and I’m just shallow enough
to enjoy the company of people who agree with me. To protect the innocent,
however, I feel compelled to note that inclusion in this list does not imply
agreement with everything in this book.
Randall Munroe
for his generous attitude about reprinting his work, and
for giving my son and me a lot to laugh about over the years at xkcd.com.
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If you don’t “get” some of them, there’s a cottage industry of sites that will explain them to you,
in the same way that Rex Parker does with each day’s crossword puzzle in
The New York
Times.
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