Book Review: The design of sites

The design of sites: Patterns, principles and process for crafting customer-centered web experience is a great book on web site design patterns. It starts of with some of the basics of user-centered design (customer-centered as the authors prefer to call it) and goes on to describe some of the common web patterns. Since this is pre-Web 2.0 book there is nothing describing AJAX interaction patterns, however the core set of patterns ranging from navigational patterns to layout and error handling patterns hold good even in the web 2.0 era. It may have less of a value for experienced professionals but it is an invaluable asset to people starting out in web based interaction design. Also for people not familiar with design, can get a good primer into good design practices. Also, if you are designer, working for a manager who does not understand design, this book makes a great gift...