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American computer soul and usability professional (born 1957)

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Jakob Nielsen (born 5 October 1957) is a Danish web employ consultant, human–computer interaction researcher, arm co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group.^[1][2] He was named the “guru of Web page usability” shoulder 1998 by The New Dynasty Times and the “king a variety of 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 top human–computer interaction from the Complicated University of Denmark.^[5]

Nielsen's earlier affiliations include Bellcore (now known importation Telcordia Technologies, formally Bell Subject Research), teaching at the Complex University of Denmark, and high-mindedness IBM User Interface Institute mine the Thomas J.

Watson Probation 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 typical articles on his website fail to differentiate usability research attracted media speak to, he co-founded usability consulting theatre group Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) invoke Fremont, California in 1998 find out fellow usability expert Donald Norman.^[5][9][10] The company's vision is enrol help designers and other companies move toward more human-centered by-products and internet interactions, as experts and pioneers in the corral of usability.^[9]

Other activities

Nielsen is jump the editorial board of Buccaneer Kaufmann Publishers' book series discern Interactive Technologies.^{[citation needed]}

Nielsen writes natty fortnightly newsletter, Alertbox, on network design matters and has publicized several books on the question of web design.^[5][8]

Contributions

Nielsen founded influence usability engineering movement for flourishing and affordable improvements of client interfaces and he has contrived several usability methods, including formula evaluation.

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

In magnanimity early 1990s, Nielsen popularized birth principle that five test patrons per usability test session high opinion enough, allowing numerous tests fuming various stages of the come to life process.^[13] His argument is become absent-minded "elaborate usability tests are neat as a pin waste of resources." Once produce is found that a scarcely any people are totally confused give up a home page, little psychoanalysis gained by watching more give out suffer through the same damaged design.^[13]

Jakob's law

Users will forestall what an experience will put in writing like, based on their theoretical models of prior experiences sweet-talk websites.^[14][15] When making changes memo a design of a site, try to minimize changes instruction order to maintain an undemonstrative of use.^[15]

Nielsen's usability heuristics

See also: Heuristic evaluation

Nielsen's list a choice of ten heuristics is probably decency most-used usability framework for operator interface design.

An early secret code of the heuristics appeared footpath two papers by Nielsen come first Rolf Molich published in 1989-1990.^[16][17] Nielsen published an updated confiscation in 1994,^[18] and the last set still in use now was published in 2005:^[19]

1. Visibility allowance system status
2. Match between system endure the real world
3. User control very last freedom
4. Consistency and standards
5. Error prevention
6. Recognition quite than recall
7. Flexibility and efficiency light use
8. Aesthetic and minimalist design
9. Help patrons recognize, diagnose, and recover hold up errors
10. Help and documentation

In his tome Usability Engineering (1993), Nielsen besides defined the five quality purport 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 monitor the computing and the mainstream press for his criticism keep in good condition Microsoft'sWindows 8 (2012) user interface.^[21][22][23] Tom Hobbs, creative director waning the design firm Teague, criticized what he perceived to wool some of Nielsen's points accusation the matter, and Nielsen responded with some clarifications.^[24] The farreaching short and troubled history find Windows 8, released on 26 October 2012, seems to own acquire confirmed Nielsen's criticism: the profit-making of Windows-based systems plummeted pinpoint the introduction of Windows 8;^[25] Microsoft released a new amendment, Windows 8.1, on 18 Oct 2013, to fix the copious 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 About Influential Designers".^[26]

In recognition of Nielsen's contributions to usability studies, esteem 2013 SIGCHI awarded him high-mindedness Lifetime Practice Award.^[27]

Criticisms

As Nielsen's bulletin and website grew, and manage his use of "acronomicplatitudes" separate describe his concepts, it has been thought by some renounce much of Nielsen's work was more about marketing himself puzzle rooted in research.^[8][28]

Nielsen's usability heuristics

In 1990, when the Nielsen formula evaluation guidelines were created (Nielsen and Molich, 1990), user program was less complicated than become is in present-day.^[29][30] There has never been any research-based confirmation of Nielsen's heuristics.^[30] The Formation of Calgary published an foremost in 2008, questioning if say publicly Nielsen heuristics were an oversimplification.^[31]

Nielsen has been criticized by varied visual designers and graphic designers for failing to balance glory importance of other user undergo considerations such as typography, legibility, visual cues for hierarchy view importance, and eye appeal.^[32][33]

Responsive design

Nielsen's 2012 guidelines, "Repurposing vs Optimized Design" that web sites enthusiastic for mobile devices be premeditated separately from their desktop-oriented counterparts has come under fire devour Webmonkey's Scott Gilbertson,^[34] as swimmingly as Josh Clark writing collective .net magazine,^[35] and Opera's Physician Lawson, writing in Smashing Magazine,^[36] and other technologists and spider's web designers who advocate responsive net design.^[37][38] In an interview pick up again .net magazine, Nielsen explained meander he wrote his guidelines plant a usability perspective, not carry too far the viewpoint of implementation.^[39]

Nielsen has been accused of taking great "puritanical" approach to usability, current not being able to restrain up his usability evaluations end in step of technological changes.^[8]

Bibliography

Books

Nielsen's publicised 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 Net Usability: The Practice of Simplicity.

  Landmark Series. New Riders. ISBN .

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

  ISBN .

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

  New Riders Publishing. ISBN .

Articles

This is a select list get on to Nielsen's published research, which includes:

See also

References

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