Usability expert Jakob Nielsen

Jakob Nielsen has been called:

  • "the king of usability" (Internet Magazine)
  • "the guru of Web page usability" (The New York Times)
  • "the next best thing to a true time machine" (USA Today)
  • "the world's leading expert on Web usability" (U.S. News & World Report)

Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., is a User Advocate and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group which he co-founded with Dr. Donald A. Norman (former VP of research at Apple Computer). Before starting NNG in 1998 he was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer.

 

Dr. Nielsen founded the "discount usability engineering" movement for fast and cheap improvements of user interfaces and has invented several usability methods, including heuristic evaluation. He holds 79 United States patents, mainly on ways of making the Internet easier to use.

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