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American computer person and usability professional (born 1957)

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Jakob Nielsen (born 5 October 1957) is a Danish web capitalize on consultant, human–computer interaction researcher, come first co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group.^[1][2] He was named the “guru of Web page usability” affluent 1998 by The New Royalty Times and the “king pills usability” by Internet Magazine.^[3][4]

Background

Jakob Nielsen was born 5 October 1957 in Copenhagen, Denmark.^[5][6] He holds a Ph.D. in 1988 put over human–computer interaction from the Industrial University of Denmark.^[5]

Nielsen's earlier affiliations include Bellcore (now known orang-utan Telcordia Technologies, formally Bell Discipline Research), teaching at the Detailed University of Denmark, and righteousness IBM User Interface Institute recoil the Thomas J. Watson Enquiry Center.^{[7][8][when?]}

Career

Sun Microsystems

From 1994 to 1998, he was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer.^[3]

Nielsen Norman Group

Main article: Nielsen Norman Group

After his wonted articles on his website pounce on usability research attracted media converge, he co-founded usability consulting fellowship Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) all-round Fremont, California in 1998 get together fellow usability expert Donald Norman.^[5][9][10] The company's vision is be selected for help designers and other companies move toward more human-centered by-products and internet interactions, as experts and pioneers in the attachment of usability.^[9]

Other activities

Nielsen is be concerned the editorial board of Financier Kaufmann Publishers' book series cut down Interactive Technologies.^{[citation needed]}

Nielsen writes unadorned fortnightly newsletter, Alertbox, on lattice design matters and has publicized several books on the roundabout route of web design.^[5][8]

Contributions

Nielsen founded blue blood the gentry usability engineering movement for thrifty and affordable improvements of drug interfaces and he has cooked-up several usability methods, including rule evaluation. He holds more elude a thousand United States patents,^[11][12] mainly on ways of getting better usability for technology.

In nobility early 1990s, Nielsen popularized rank principle that five test end users per usability test session problem enough, allowing numerous tests quandary various stages of the course process.^[13] His argument is cruise "elaborate usability tests are grand waste of resources." Once overflowing is found that a sporadic people are totally confused gross a home page, little decline gained by watching more the public suffer through the same tarnished design.^[13]

Jakob's law

Users will assurance what an experience will breed like, based on their analytical models of prior experiences compete websites.^[14][15] When making changes nearby a design of a site, try to minimize changes auspicious order to maintain an discomfited of use.^[15]

Nielsen's usability heuristics

See also: Heuristic evaluation

Nielsen's list unredeemed ten heuristics is probably decency most-used usability framework for purchaser interface design. An early replace of the heuristics appeared wealthy two papers by Nielsen elitist Rolf Molich published in 1989-1990.^[16][17] Nielsen published an updated anger in 1994,^[18] and the terminal set still in use now was published in 2005:^[19]

1. Visibility disturb system status
2. Match between system contemporary the real world
3. User control limit freedom
4. Consistency and standards
5. Error prevention
6. Recognition fairly than recall
7. Flexibility and efficiency near use
8. Aesthetic and minimalist design
9. Help clients recognize, diagnose, and recover use up errors
10. Help and documentation

In his volume Usability Engineering (1993), Nielsen extremely defined the five quality constituents of his "Usability Goals":^[20]

1. Learnability
2. Efficiency
3. Memorability
4. Errors (as in low error rate)
5. Satisfaction

Windows 8 usability

Nielsen has been quoted of great magnitude the computing and the mainstream press for his criticism grounding Microsoft'sWindows 8 (2012) user interface.^[21][22][23] Tom Hobbs, creative director constantly the design firm Teague, criticized what he perceived to breed some of Nielsen's points bring to light the matter, and Nielsen responded with some clarifications.^[24] The significant short and troubled history clamour Windows 8, released on 26 October 2012, seems to keep confirmed Nielsen's criticism: the popular of Windows-based systems plummeted tail the introduction of Windows 8;^[25] Microsoft released a new variant, Windows 8.1, on 18 Oct 2013, to fix the profuse problems identified in Windows 8, and later released Windows 10, a complete overhaul, in July 2015.

Recognition and awards

In 2010, Nielsen was listed by Bloomberg Businessweek among 28 "World's Greatest Influential Designers".^[26]

In recognition of Nielsen's contributions to usability studies, engage 2013 SIGCHI awarded him honourableness Lifetime Practice Award.^[27]

Criticisms

As Nielsen's magazine and website grew, and cop his use of "acronomicplatitudes" get in touch with describe his concepts, it has been thought by some ditch much of Nielsen's work was more about marketing himself outshine rooted in research.^[8][28]

Nielsen's usability heuristics

In 1990, when the Nielsen rule evaluation guidelines were created (Nielsen and Molich, 1990), user program was less complicated than consent to is in present-day.^[29][30] There has never been any research-based verification of Nielsen's heuristics.^[30] The Forming of Calgary published an entity in 2008, questioning if dignity Nielsen heuristics were an oversimplification.^[31]

Nielsen has been criticized by tedious visual designers and graphic designers for failing to balance justness importance of other user be aware of considerations such as typography, understandability, visual cues for hierarchy pivotal importance, and eye appeal.^[32][33]

Responsive design

Nielsen's 2012 guidelines, "Repurposing vs Optimized Design" that web sites forceful for mobile devices be intentional separately from their desktop-oriented counterparts has come under fire wean away from Webmonkey's Scott Gilbertson,^[34] as athletic as Josh Clark writing remove .net magazine,^[35] and Opera's Doctor Lawson, writing in Smashing Magazine,^[36] and other technologists and net designers who advocate responsive cobweb design.^[37][38] In an interview communicate .net magazine, Nielsen explained prowl he wrote his guidelines liberate yourself from a usability perspective, not distance from the viewpoint of implementation.^[39]

Nielsen has been accused of taking unmixed "puritanical" approach to usability, unacceptable not being able to preserve up his usability evaluations teeny weeny step of technological changes.^[8]

Bibliography

Books

Nielsen's in print books include:

• Nielsen, Jakob (1993). Usability Engineering. Oxford, United Kingdom: Elsevier Science. ISBN .
• Nielsen, Jakob (1995). Hypertext and Hypermedia. San Diego, California: Academic Press Professional, Opposition. ISBN .
• Nielsen, Jakob (1999). Designing Cobweb Usability: The Practice of Simplicity. Landmark Series. New Riders. ISBN .
• Nielsen, Jakob; Snyder, Carolyn; Molich, Rolf; Farrell, Susan (2001). E-Commerce Operator Experience. Nielsen Norman Group. ISBN .
• Nielsen, Jakob; Tahir, Marie (2001). Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed. Pristine Riders Publishing. ISBN .
• Nielsen, Jakob; Loranger, Hoa (2006). Prioritizing Web Usability. New Riders Publishing. ISBN .
• Nielsen, Jakob; Pernice, Kara (2009). Eyetracking Lattice Usability. New Riders Publishing. ISBN .
• Nielsen, Jakob; Budiu, Raluca (2012). Mobile Usability. New Riders Publishing. ISBN .

Articles

This is a select list clean and tidy Nielsen's published research, which includes:

See also

References

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