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Jakob Nielsen

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born

October 05, 1957 in Copenhagen, Denmark

gender

male

website

http://www.useit.com/

genre

Computers & Internet

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Jakob Nielsen is a leading web usability consultant. He holds a Ph.D. in human-computer interaction from the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen. He is also the 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.

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 Web easier to use.

Nielsen has also given his five quality components of Usability Goals, which are: Learnability, Efficie...more

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Books by Jakob Nielsen

Average rating: 3.65 · 731 ratings · 51 reviews · 38 distinct works

	Designing Web Usability 3.62 avg rating — 344 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed by Jakob Nielsen, Marie Tahir 3.56 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Prioritizing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger 3.79 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Usability Engineering 3.66 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Eyetracking Web Usability 3.44 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	E-Commerce User Experience 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Web usability by Jakob Nielsen, W. Vanini (Translator), Jacob Nielsen 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings	My rating:
	Usability Inspection Methods 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Web Usability 2.0: L'usabilità Che Conta 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Hypertext And Hypermedia 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating: