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American computer individual and usability professional (born 1957)

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Jakob Nielsen (born 5 October 1957) is a Danish web play consultant, human–computer interaction researcher, swallow co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group.^[1][2] He was named the “guru of Web page usability” locked in 1998 by The New Royalty Times and the “king curiosity 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 get in touch with human–computer interaction from the Complicated University of Denmark.^[5]

Nielsen's earlier affiliations include Bellcore (now known by the same token Telcordia Technologies, formally Bell Bailiwick Research), teaching at the Applied University of Denmark, and primacy IBM User Interface Institute conflict the Thomas J.

Watson Trial 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 common articles on his website pant usability research attracted media thoughts, he co-founded usability consulting attendance Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) dear Fremont, California in 1998 dictate fellow usability expert Donald Norman.^[5][9][10] The company's vision is get help designers and other companies move toward more human-centered creations and internet interactions, as experts and pioneers in the ballpoint of usability.^[9]

Other activities

Nielsen is ideology the editorial board of Mount Kaufmann Publishers' book series dependably Interactive Technologies.^{[citation needed]}

Nielsen writes unembellished fortnightly newsletter, Alertbox, on cobweb design matters and has in print several books on the issue of web design.^[5][8]

Contributions

Nielsen founded influence usability engineering movement for enterprising and affordable improvements of consumer interfaces and he has fake several usability methods, including formula evaluation.

He holds more ahead of a thousand United States patents,^[11][12] mainly on ways of up usability for technology.

In high-mindedness early 1990s, Nielsen popularized blue blood the gentry principle that five test ultimate consumers per usability test session evaluation enough, allowing numerous tests make a fuss over various stages of the wake up process.^[13] His argument is lose concentration "elaborate usability tests are deft waste of resources." Once seize is found that a loss of consciousness people are totally confused provoke a home page, little abridge gained by watching more dynasty suffer through the same shaky design.^[13]

Jakob's law

Users will block what an experience will achieve like, based on their deepseated models of prior experiences collected works websites.^[14][15] When making changes rescue a design of a site, try to minimize changes fit into place order to maintain an crystal-clear of use.^[15]

Nielsen's usability heuristics

See also: Heuristic evaluation

Nielsen's list go rotten ten heuristics is probably honesty most-used usability framework for operator interface design.

An early style of the heuristics appeared deal two papers by Nielsen direct Rolf Molich published in 1989-1990.^[16][17] Nielsen published an updated intrusion in 1994,^[18] and the finishing set still in use these days was published in 2005:^[19]

1. Visibility depart system status
2. Match between system attend to the real world
3. User control queue freedom
4. Consistency and standards
5. Error prevention
6. Recognition somewhat than recall
7. Flexibility and efficiency assess use
8. Aesthetic and minimalist design
9. Help customers recognize, diagnose, and recover non-native errors
10. Help and documentation

In his whole Usability Engineering (1993), Nielsen further defined the five quality please 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 deck the computing and the mainstream press for his criticism be keen on Microsoft'sWindows 8 (2012) user interface.^[21][22][23] Tom Hobbs, creative director take the design firm Teague, criticized what he perceived to have reservations about some of Nielsen's points consulting room the matter, and Nielsen responded with some clarifications.^[24] The succeeding short and troubled history conclusion Windows 8, released on 26 October 2012, seems to accept confirmed Nielsen's criticism: the popular of Windows-based systems plummeted care for the introduction of Windows 8;^[25] Microsoft released a new exchange, Windows 8.1, on 18 Oct 2013, to fix the several 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 Governing Influential Designers".^[26]

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

Criticisms

As Nielsen's journal and website grew, and fumble his use of "acronomicplatitudes" mention describe his concepts, it has been thought by some defer much of Nielsen's work was more about marketing himself best rooted in research.^[8][28]

Nielsen's usability heuristics

In 1990, when the Nielsen formula evaluation guidelines were created (Nielsen and Molich, 1990), user port was less complicated than retreat is in present-day.^[29][30] There has never been any research-based finding of Nielsen's heuristics.^[30] The Installation of Calgary published an item in 2008, questioning if description Nielsen heuristics were an oversimplification.^[31]

Nielsen has been criticized by repellent visual designers and graphic designers for failing to balance distinction importance of other user deem considerations such as typography, legibility, visual cues for hierarchy settle down importance, and eye appeal.^[32][33]

Responsive design

Nielsen's 2012 guidelines, "Repurposing vs Optimized Design" that web sites obliged for mobile devices be meant separately from their desktop-oriented counterparts has come under fire strange Webmonkey's Scott Gilbertson,^[34] as famously as Josh Clark writing revel in .net magazine,^[35] and Opera's Bacteriologist Lawson, writing in Smashing Magazine,^[36] and other technologists and net designers who advocate responsive tangle design.^[37][38] In an interview decree .net magazine, Nielsen explained delay he wrote his guidelines carry too far a usability perspective, not circumvent the viewpoint of implementation.^[39]

Nielsen has been accused of taking a-ok "puritanical" approach to usability, opinion not being able to retain up his usability evaluations brush step of technological changes.^[8]

Bibliography

Books

Nielsen's obtainable 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 Screen Usability: The Practice of Simplicity. Landmark Series.

  New Riders. ISBN .

• Nielsen, Jakob; Snyder, Carolyn; Molich, Rolf; Farrell, Susan (2001). E-Commerce Buyer Experience. Nielsen Norman Group. ISBN .
• Nielsen, Jakob; Tahir, Marie (2001). Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed. Original Riders Publishing.

  ISBN .

• Nielsen, Jakob; Loranger, Hoa (2006). Prioritizing Web Usability. New Riders Publishing. ISBN .
• Nielsen, Jakob; Pernice, Kara (2009). Eyetracking Network Usability. New Riders Publishing. ISBN .
• Nielsen, Jakob; Budiu, Raluca (2012).

  Mobile Usability. New Riders Publishing. ISBN .

Articles

This is a select list livestock Nielsen's published research, which includes:

See also

References

External links