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If the First Law Of Usability – Don’t Make Me Think, as outlined in the book Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition by Steve Krug, so how do I design my pages for thoughtless (and streamlined) consumption? Krug advocates for visual hierarchy, conventions, breaking pages into areas, making clickables obvious, and minimizing noise.

While flipping through the book Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers one chapter caught my attention more than others. It was about Long Tail Business Model and how the principles outlined in the book applied to it.. It caught my attention since I thought it resonates with what consultants and bloggers do.  When I finished reading it I was convinced. Here is why.

  “I should be able to ‘get it’ – what it is and how to use it – without expending any effort thinking about it.”

If you are building products, offering services, or building web sites you better read a book  Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition by Steve Krug. Indeed the more we make people think the more hurdles we set for them on their way to buying and using what we have to offer. I strongly believe that usability is a key …

by zedzap
Bloggers’ eyes are at strains as blogging requires tons of reading. Especially it is painful for part time bloggers as they do it at night when the light is less than optimal.
The result is pretty expected – at some point bloggers prescribed to wear eyeglasses.
That is exactly what happened to me a year ago at age of 36. While almost everyone tells me the glasses suit me I admit it is a pain – physical and logistical [and financial].
William H. Bates shares practical techniques to improve eyesight in his …