Best Web Site Design
If you’ve read it before, you’ll rediscover what made Don’t Make Me Think so essential to Web designers and developers around the world. Steve Krug (pronounced "kroog") is best known as the author of Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability , now in its second edition with over 350,000 copies in print.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This book is for anyone who owns a website, builds websites, manages websites others have built, or manages people who build and/or manage websites."
"As the subtitle, "A Common Sense Approach", and Krug's consultancy's name, "Advanced Common Sense" ([...]) convey, many great design considerations today involve some simple approaches to dramatically improve your web user experiences."
"This should be required reading by ALL marketing execs, ALL web designers and developers, ALL graphic designers, ALL product designers and inventors, and ALL copywriters."
"That fact makes this book a good read for anybody who is involved in any aspect of a websites operation, Web Developer, Marketing, Sales and Management (from mid level to upper level)."
"Many of the ideas and resources in the book have been incredibly valuable to me in my work, and it's almost always the first book I recommend to anyone asking questions about User Experience related topics."
"Unlike a boring text book, Krug makes the book really fun with helpful (yet obvious) examples that bring some concepts to life."
"Krug breaks the issues of usable web design into simple, digestible form for anyone who depends on a website for promotion or income."
"This book was on the "suggested" reading lists for an interface design class that I took in college."
Whether you're a product manager, product owner, business analyst, program manager, project manager, scrum master, lead developer, designer, development manager, entrepreneur, or business owner, this book will show you how to:
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Find Best Price at Amazon"By decoupling the roadmap from feature lists and product release cycles they have provided product leaders (and teams) with a tool that delivers value to the entire product org."
"Product Roadmaps Relaunched explains what a roadmap is (and isn’t) and explores how to deal with unrealistic expectations. A good roadmap, though, is not so much a project plan as a strategic communications tool, a statement of intent and direction.”. Product Roadmaps Relaunched reveals best practices for managing product strategy using roadmaps with lots of examples, including how roadmaps change through the life cycle and how to incorporate feedback from customers, stakeholders, and your target markets."
"One of the "Must Have" books for your software company.There are a few books that every company should have and even fewer books that everyone in that company - executives, sales, marketing, client services and technology -- should read."
"I enjoyed the many examples used to illustrate the suggestions and strongly recommend every product person flip through the book for those alone. It feels a little like they're pushing the demand for certainty and related anxieties and questions off to a different document without providing strategies for how to deal with them."
"As a product manager, I really struggled to find anything on Amazon about roadmaps until this book became available."
"Just not detailed enough for actual practice, very generic and basic."
By the time you finish this book, you’ll be able to take advantage of the best design practices and experiences of those who have fought the beast of software design and triumphed.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I was kind of uneasy buying this book, I have NEVER bought a head first book...I've seen them at some of the larger book retailers and I've thumbed through them and quickly dismissed them as a gimmick and "for kids" due to all the illustrations and goofy quotes...I feel very sorry about that now, I have a TRUE FEELING that I would have a much deeper understanding of C++, Java, and PHP if all of Head First's books are written as well as this one...this book DOES make lots of use of "out of the ordinary" techniques when it comes to a software development book."
"The book is lengthy in detail for each of the design patterns, and even though I was able to grasp the concept, but there was too much back and forth to get there."
"The code can be translated to other languages, but there are better ways to implement the Singleton Pattern and the Subject/Observer Patterns in .NET."
"The book seems to have plenty of ways to fry the information into your brain including fill in the blank questions and programming exercises. I find it really interesting how the Head First guys use cognitive research to help with learning the material."
"a nice intro to design patterns."
"I love these Head First books."
"Fun book."
"Simply knowing (and using) principles such as abstraction, inheritance, polymorphism, and the like is not what OO is really about -- it's about writing solid, flexible, maintainable, and all around _good_ code... and that's exactly what this book teaches you."
Best Application Development
The highly successful security book returns with a new edition, completely updated Web applications are the front door to most organizations, exposing them to attacks that may disclose personal information, execute fraudulent transactions, or compromise ordinary users. Review.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I bought this to get into bug bounties and maybe to see if it covers anything I didn't cover in my uni classes."
"This book is a must have for those interested in learning and expanding their skills in web application hacking."
"I do feel I learned a lot from this book."
"This book is extremely in depth and topics are covered in great detail."
"It'a great book that explains the subjects in great details with good examples!"
"Great book."
"It is a good book for application hackers to get protrcted from hacking."
"Great reference book - bought it for class."
Best User Experience & Usability
If you’ve read it before, you’ll rediscover what made Don’t Make Me Think so essential to Web designers and developers around the world. Steve Krug (pronounced "kroog") is best known as the author of Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability , now in its second edition with over 350,000 copies in print.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"As the subtitle, "A Common Sense Approach", and Krug's consultancy's name, "Advanced Common Sense" ([...]) convey, many great design considerations today involve some simple approaches to dramatically improve your web user experiences."
"This should be required reading by ALL marketing execs, ALL web designers and developers, ALL graphic designers, ALL product designers and inventors, and ALL copywriters."
"Krug breaks the issues of usable web design into simple, digestible form for anyone who depends on a website for promotion or income."
"That fact makes this book a good read for anybody who is involved in any aspect of a websites operation, Web Developer, Marketing, Sales and Management (from mid level to upper level)."
"Many of the ideas and resources in the book have been incredibly valuable to me in my work, and it's almost always the first book I recommend to anyone asking questions about User Experience related topics."
"Unlike a boring text book, Krug makes the book really fun with helpful (yet obvious) examples that bring some concepts to life."
"This book was on the "suggested" reading lists for an interface design class that I took in college."
"But how is though to follow common sense when building a website! I use it on my daily work, to guide my business partners in the construction of the websites for my B2B Clients, and after reading it, is quirte amazing how you can immediatelly spot in the web the websites that follow its principles and those that don't."