Jakob Nielsen
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Danish web usability consultant
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Jakob Nielsen 's Degrees
- PhD Computer Science Technical University of Denmark
- Masters Computer Science Technical University of Denmark
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jakob Nielsen is a Danish web usability consultant, human–computer interaction researcher, and co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group. He was named the “guru of Web page usability” in 1998 by The New York Times and the “king of usability” by Internet Magazine.
Jakob Nielsen 's Published Works
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Published Works
- Usability engineering (1997) (12503)
- Heuristic evaluation of user interfaces (1990) (3158)
- Usability inspection methods (1994) (2355)
- Heuristic evaluation (1994) (2355)
- Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity (1999) (2221)
- A mathematical model of the finding of usability problems (1993) (1863)
- Designing web usability (1999) (1647)
- Usability inspection methods (1994) (1510)
- Chapter 4 – The Usability Engineering Lifecycle (1993) (1328)
- Enhancing the explanatory power of usability heuristics (1994) (1185)
- Finding usability problems through heuristic evaluation (1992) (1093)
- Hypertext and hypermedia (1990) (845)
- Improving a human-computer dialogue (1990) (803)
- Ten Usability Heuristics (2006) (650)
- Prioritizing Web Usability (2006) (614)
- Measuring usability: preference vs. performance (1994) (534)
- The art of navigating through hypertext (1990) (526)
- The usability engineering life cycle (1992) (502)
- Guerrilla HCI: using discount usability engineering to penetrate the intimidation barrier (1994) (466)
- How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation (2006) (466)
- Estimating the number of subjects needed for a thinking aloud test (1994) (455)
- Iterative user-interface design (1993) (455)
- Eyetracking Web Usability (2009) (419)
- Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed (2001) (408)
- User interface directions for the Web (1999) (387)
- Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond (1995) (358)
- Noncommand user interfaces (1993) (307)
- Usability engineering at a discount (1989) (282)
- Severity Ratings for Usability Problems (2006) (266)
- Gestural interfaces: a step backward in usability (2010) (233)
- Automating the assignment of submitted manuscripts to reviewers (1992) (216)
- Chapter 6 – Usability Testing (1993) (215)
- International user interfaces (1993) (212)
- Determining Usability Test Sample Size (2006) (209)
- The Anti-Mac interface (1996) (200)
- What Is Usability (2009) (198)
- E-Commerce User Experience (2001) (187)
- Concise, SCANNABLE, and Objective: How to Write for the Web (2006) (186)
- Estimating the relative usability of two interfaces: heuristic, formal, and empirical methods compared (1993) (186)
- Interface: The Use and Misuse of Focus Groups (1997) (183)
- Designing User Interfaces for International Use (1990) (174)
- Coordinating user interfaces for consistency (2001) (155)
- Top ten mistakes in web design (1996) (145)
- Book review: Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction by Ben Shneiderman (Addison-Wesley, 1987) (1987) (145)
- The matters that really matter for hypertext usability (1989) (141)
- Information Appliances and Beyond (2000) (126)
- SunWeb: User Interface Design for Sun Microsystem's Internal Web (1995) (120)
- Heuristics for User Interface Design (2006) (117)
- Usability Metrics: Tracking Interface Improvements (1996) (102)
- A Review Of: Beyond ALT Text: Making the Web Easy to Use for Users with Disabilities (2002) (101)
- Assessing the usability of a user interface standard (1991) (98)
- The "magic number 5": is it enough for web testing? (2002) (93)
- International users interface (1996) (87)
- Evaluating hypertext usability (1990) (83)
- Traditional dialogue design applied to modern user interfaces (1990) (82)
- Applying writing guidelines to Web pages (1998) (79)
- Usability inspection methods: executive summary (1995) (72)
- Scenarios in discount usability engineering (1995) (65)
- Two Field Studies of Hypermedia Usability (1989) (63)
- Information foraging : Why google makes people leave your site faster (2003) (60)
- Speed Up Your Site: Web Site Optimization (2003) (56)
- Integrated software usage in the professional work environment: evidence from questionnaires and interviews (1986) (54)
- Applying Discount Usability Engineering (1995) (53)
- Did poor usability kill e-commerce? (2001) (50)
- Chapter 5 – Usability Heuristics (1993) (48)
- Enhancing the explanatory power of usability heuristics (1994) (48)
- Usability testing of international interfaces (1990) (47)
- Chapter 2 - What Is Usability? (1993) (43)
- The experience of learning and using Smalltalk (1989) (41)
- Teaching user interface design based on usability engineering (1989) (39)
- wap usability deja vu: 1994 all over again (2000) (38)
- Usability laboratories (1994) (37)
- Teaching experienced developers to design graphical user interfaces (1992) (37)
- Multimedia, Hypertext und Internet (1996) (37)
- Digital Divide: The Three Stages (2006) (34)
- A Meta-model for Interacting with Computers (1990) (33)
- User interface design for the WWW (1996) (33)
- Improving System Usability Through Parallel Design (1996) (33)
- Executive summary: coordinating user interfaces for consistency (1989) (33)
- What makes strategic usability fail?: lessons learned from the field (1999) (33)
- Hypertext '87 (1988) (32)
- User involvement in the design process: why, when & how? (1993) (32)
- Technology Transfer of Heuristic Evaluation and Usability Inspection (2006) (31)
- The Importance of Being Beautiful (1996) (30)
- Reliability of severity estimates for usability problems found by heuristic evaluation (1992) (30)
- Usability inspection methods: report on a workshop held at CHI'92, Monterey, CA, May 3–4, 1992 (1993) (28)
- Getting usability used (1995) (27)
- Usability for the masses (2005) (26)
- Interact '87 (1988) (25)
- Introduction to Web design (1998) (25)
- A home-page overhaul using other Web sites (1995) (22)
- Designing for diverse users: will just a better interface do? (1994) (21)
- Computer-support cooperative work (1987) (20)
- IM, Not IP (Information Pollution) (2003) (20)
- A Similarity-Based Hypertext Browser for Reading the Unix Network News (1989) (20)
- Comparative design review: an exercise in parallel design (1993) (19)
- The learnability of HyperCard as an object-oriented programming system (1991) (19)
- 234 tips and tricks for recruiting users as participants in usability studies (2010) (18)
- User experience for mobile applications and websites: design guidelines for improving the usability of mobile sites and apps (2015) (18)
- Miniatures versus icons as a visual cache for videotex browsing (1990) (18)
- Sound effects as an interface element for older users (1993) (16)
- Designing for international use (panel) (1990) (15)
- What do users really want? (1989) (14)
- Using Paper Prototypes In Home-page Design (1995) (13)
- Trip report: hypertext '89 (1990) (12)
- Let's ask the users [user interfaces] (1997) (10)
- WebTV Usability Review (1997) (10)
- Something Is Better Than Nothing (1997) (10)
- Good Web design: essential ingredient! (1998) (9)
- Designing usable systems under real-world constraints: a practitioners forum (1992) (9)
- Designing to Seduce the User (1996) (8)
- Current Issues in the Determination of Usability Test Sample Size : How Many Users is Enough ? (2002) (8)
- Classification of dialog techniques (1987) (7)
- Diversified parallel design: contrasting design approaches (1994) (7)
- Book review: Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction Ed. by Martin Helander (North-Holland, Amsterdam 1988) (1990) (6)
- How Readers Annotate Textbooks and Manuals (1984) (6)
- Is the Web really different from everything else? (1998) (6)
- Why GUI panic is good panic (1994) (6)
- Usability metrics and methodologies (1991) (6)
- Teenagers (Ages 13–17) on the Web (2013) (6)
- Putting the User in User-Interface Testing (1996) (5)
- Web interfaces live: what's hot, what's not? (1997) (5)
- International user interfaces: an exercise (1990) (5)
- A User Interface Case Study of the Macintosh (1987) (5)
- A taxonomy for developing high impact formative usability evaluation methods: a CHI '94 workshop (1994) (5)
- Hypertext II (1989) (5)
- International Conference on Fifth Generation computer systems 1988 (1989) (4)
- Hypertext Bibliography (1989) (4)
- Ensuring Web Usability: Understanding What Users Want (2006) (4)
- Designing Interfaces For the Organization (1995) (4)
- Chapter 7 – Usability Assessment Methods beyond Testing (1993) (4)
- 230 tips and tricks for better usability testing (2010) (4)
- The Nielsen ratings: hypertext reviews (1991) (4)
- Book review: TOG ON INTERFACE by Bruce Tognazzini (ADDISON-WESLEY, 1992) (1993) (3)
- Three medium-sized hypertexts on CD-ROM (1989) (3)
- The Impending Demise of the File System (1996) (3)
- Augmented conceptual analysis of the web (1997) (3)
- As they may work (1994) (3)
- Chapter 3 – Generations of User Interfaces (1993) (3)
- The future of hypermedia (1995) (3)
- UPA93: Usability Professionals Association Annual Meeting, 21–23 July 1993, Redmond, WA, USA (1994) (2)
- Going Global With User Testing (1996) (2)
- The electronic business card: an experiment in half-dead hypertext (1995) (2)
- Applying Writing Guidelines to Web (2005) (1)
- College Students on the Web: Usability Guidelines for Creating Compelling Websites for College Students (2011) (1)
- CHI '88 trip report (1988) (1)
- User interface design for the WWW (1996) (1)
- ESTIMATING THE MARKET DIFFUSION CURVE FOR HYPERTEXT (1991) (1)
- Usability engineering on a budget (1990) (1)
- International user interface for INFOFLEX (1990) (1)
- Discount Usability - Counterpoint: Something Is Better than Nothing. (1997) (1)
- Independent iterative design: a method that didn't work (1995) (1)
- Book reivew: Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction ed. by Martin Helander (North-Holland 1988) (1990) (1)
- Current issues in web design: building the network economy (1999) (1)
- CHI Witnesses Trend to Engaging Interfaces (1994) (0)
- User Interfaces (2000) (0)
- Interface: Let's Ask the Users (1997) (0)
- A new ideology for messaging (1999) (0)
- Conceptual Analysis of the Web (2005) (0)
- Electronic resources in human-computer interaction (1994) (0)
- Interface: Learning from the Real World (1997) (0)
- Applying International Usability Standards (2004) (0)
- Book Review: Defying Gravity: The Making of Newton by Markos Kounalakis (Beyond Words Publishing, Inc., 1993) (1994) (0)
- THE HCI SITUATION IN EUROPE (1988) (0)
- Technical correspondence: on encoding of line numbers (1980) (0)
- Current issues in Web design (1998) (0)
- Book review: A HISTORY OF PERSONAL WORKSTATIONS ed. by Adele Goldberg (ACM Press/Addison-Wesley, 1988) (1989) (0)
- DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT (1988) (0)
- Chapter 8 – Interface Standards (1993) (0)
- The Nielsen Ratings: Hypertext Reviews (Panel). (1991) (0)
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