CHAPTER 9 Usability testing on 10 cents a day
LARGER CONCERNS AND OUTSIDE INFLUENCES
CHAPTER 10 Usability as common courtesy
CHAPTER 11 Accessibility, Cascading Style Sheets, and you
CHAPTER 12 Help! My boss wants me to ________.
Recommended reading
Acknowledgments
Index
PREFACE
About the Second Edition
—MICHAEL CORLEONE, IN
Since
I get lots of lovely email. You can’t imagine how nice it is to start your morning with someone you’ve never met telling you that they enjoyed something that you did. (I recommend it highly. )
Even nicer is the fact that people seem to like the book for the same reasons I do.
For instance:
> Many people appreciate the fact that it’s short. (Some have told me that they actually read it on a plane ride, which was one of my stated objectives for the first edition; the record for “fastest read” seems to be about two hours. )
> A gratifying number of people have said that they liked the book because it practices what it preaches, in the writing and the design.
> Some people said it made them laugh out loud, which I really appreciated.
(One reader said that I made her laugh so hard that milk came out of her nose. How can something like that help but make you feel that your time has been well spent?)But the most satisfying thing has been people saying that it helped them get their job done better.
But what have you done for us lately?
It only took about a year after the book appeared for people to start asking me when I was going to do a second edition.
For a long time, I really resisted the idea. I liked the book the way it was and thought it worked well, and since it was about design principles and not technology, I didn’t think it was likely to be out of date anytime soon.
Usually I’d pull the consultant/therapist trick of asking them what
Other people would say, “Well, you could talk about the things about the Web that have changed. ” It’s true; some things about the Web
> More good sites to copy from
> Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that actually work