Don't Make Me Click
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters recommend it as a companion to Steve Krug's usability advice and as a talk on minimal interface design.
What it is
A Google Tech Talk arguing that the best interface requires the fewest clicks and choices, with Google search, Facebook, the iPod and Firefox as examples. It shows how minimizing interaction makes interfaces easier to learn.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2008 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Recommends bwh2 · 2008-06 · on “Ask YC: Where to learn web design?”
Read Don't Make Me Think! by Steve Krug. Also watch this talk titled "Don't Make Me Click!": [this video] It's really helpful to deconstruct website designs. So I frequently look at a website and think about sections I would redesign, how I would do it, and most importantly - why. Sometimes I break out an image editing program and redesign the sections or even the entire page. The huge advantage with this approach is that the content is already provided. When I started learning web design, I would come up with hypothetical website ideas (like "I'll design a website for a law firm") and then try to create the content in addition to the website. But it doesn't work like that. You need content to wo
Recommends ehsanul · 2009-07 · on “Calculate The Efficiency of Your User Interface”
This is another interesting link, a talk by the author of the linked post, with a similar focus (Don't make me click): [this video]
Cites DanielRibeiro · 2012-08 · on “The Cooper Journal: The best interface is no interface”
Some of the same points Aza Askin did a few years ago on his Don't make me click presentation[1] : "The best interface for a shovel is a hole where you need it" [1] [this video]
Cites 0x445442 · 2020-11 · on “Spectre.Console lets you make beautiful console apps with .NET Core”
I've actually been thinking about this type of interface for years and have never really got the opportunity to implement my ideas. Are you familiar with the Raskins' work? [LINK] [LINK] [this video]