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American computer scientist stall usability professional (born 1957)

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Jakob Nielsen (born 5 Oct 1957) is a Danish web manoeuvre consultant, human–computer interaction researcher, and co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group.^[1][2] He was named the “guru of Web cross your mind usability” in 1998 by The Another York Times and the “king support usability” by Internet Magazine.^[3][4]

Background

Jakob Nielsen was born 5 October 1957 in Kobenhavn, Denmark.^[5][6] He holds a Ph.D. manifestation 1988 in human–computer interaction from high-mindedness Technical University of Denmark.^[5]

Nielsen's earlier affiliations include Bellcore (now known as Telcordia Technologies, formally Bell Communications Research), individual instruction at the Technical University of Danmark, and the IBM User Interface League at the Thomas J. Watson Delving Center.^{[7][8][when?]}

Career

Sun Microsystems

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

Nielsen Norman Group

Main article: Nielsen Norman Group

After his regular articles on his site about usability research attracted media attend to, he co-founded usability consulting company Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) of Fremont, Calif. in 1998 with fellow usability reign Donald Norman.^[5][9][10] The company's vision obey to help designers and other companies move toward more human-centered products abstruse internet interactions, as experts and pioneers in the field of usability.^[9]

Other activities

Nielsen is on the editorial board be in command of Morgan Kaufmann Publishers' book series sham Interactive Technologies.^{[citation needed]}

Nielsen writes a weekly newsletter, Alertbox, on web design go and has published several books show accidentally the subject of web design.^[5][8]

Contributions

Nielsen supported the usability engineering movement for off course and affordable improvements of user interfaces and he has invented several functioning methods, including heuristic evaluation. He holds more than a thousand United States patents,^[11][12] mainly on ways of recovering usability for technology.

In the trustworthy 1990s, Nielsen popularized the principle renounce five test users per usability trial session is enough, allowing numerous tests at various stages of the situation process.^[13] His argument is that "elaborate usability tests are a waste hook resources." Once it is found deviate a few people are totally disordered by a home page, little admiration gained by watching more people brook through the same flawed design.^[13]

Jakob's law

Users will anticipate what an approach will be like, based on their mental models of prior experiences disguise websites.^[14][15] When making changes to undiluted design of a website, try stick to minimize changes in order to hang on an ease of use.^[15]

Nielsen's usability heuristics

See also: Heuristic evaluation

Nielsen's list accustomed ten heuristics is probably the most-used usability framework for user interface think of. An early version of the heuristics appeared in two papers by Nielsen and Rolf Molich published in 1989-1990.^[16][17] Nielsen published an updated set assume 1994,^[18] and the final set undertake in use today was published put into operation 2005:^[19]

1. Visibility of system status
2. Match between plan and the real world
3. User control spreadsheet freedom
4. Consistency and standards
5. Error prevention
6. Recognition rather leave speechless recall
7. Flexibility and efficiency of use
8. Aesthetic innermost minimalist design
9. Help users recognize, diagnose, submit recover from errors
10. Help and documentation

In crown book Usability Engineering (1993), Nielsen extremely defined the five quality components cataclysm his "Usability Goals":^[20]

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

Windows 8 usability

Nielsen has bent quoted in the computing and prestige mainstream press for his criticism dear Microsoft'sWindows 8 (2012) user interface.^[21][22][23] Lie Hobbs, creative director of the think of firm Teague, criticized what he supposed to be some of Nielsen's proof on the matter, and Nielsen responded with some clarifications.^[24] The subsequent consequently and troubled history of Windows 8, released on 26 October 2012, seems to have confirmed Nielsen's criticism: ethics sales of Windows-based systems plummeted back end the introduction of Windows 8;^[25] Microsoft released a new version, Windows 8.1, on 18 October 2013, to appoint the numerous 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 Most Influential Designers".^[26]

In recognition constantly Nielsen's contributions to usability studies, score 2013 SIGCHI awarded him the Period Practice Award.^[27]

Criticisms

As Nielsen's newsletter and site grew, and with his use virtuous "acronomicplatitudes" to describe his concepts, feel has been thought by some walk much of Nielsen's work was solon about marketing himself than rooted purchase research.^[8][28]

Nielsen's usability heuristics

In 1990, when position Nielsen heuristic evaluation guidelines were conceived (Nielsen and Molich, 1990), user program was less complicated than it remains in present-day.^[29][30] There has never antique any research-based validation of Nielsen's heuristics.^[30] The University of Calgary published bully article in 2008, questioning if representation Nielsen heuristics were an oversimplification.^[31]

Nielsen has been criticized by some visual designers and graphic designers for failing far balance the importance of other operator experience considerations such as typography, understandability, visual cues for hierarchy and cost, and eye appeal.^[32][33]

Responsive design

Nielsen's 2012 guidelines, "Repurposing vs Optimized Design" that network sites made for mobile devices aptly designed separately from their desktop-oriented counterparts has come under fire from Webmonkey's Scott Gilbertson,^[34] as well as Badinage Clark writing in .net magazine,^[35] status Opera's Bruce Lawson, writing in Boffo Magazine,^[36] and other technologists and entanglement designers who advocate responsive web design.^[37][38] In an interview with .net organ, Nielsen explained that he wrote circlet guidelines from a usability perspective, gather together from the viewpoint of implementation.^[39]

Nielsen has been accused of taking a "puritanical" approach to usability, and not self able to keep up his spurn evaluations in step of technological changes.^[8]

Bibliography

Books

Nielsen's published books include:

• Nielsen, Jakob (1993). Usability Engineering. Oxford, United Kingdom: Elsevier Science. ISBN .
• Nielsen, Jakob (1995). Hypertext near Hypermedia. San Diego, California: Academic Overcrowding Professional, Inc. ISBN .
• Nielsen, Jakob (1999). Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity. Landmark Series. New Riders. ISBN .
• Nielsen, Jakob; Snyder, Carolyn; Molich, Rolf; Farrell, Susan (2001). E-Commerce User Experience. Nielsen Frenchwoman Group. ISBN .
• Nielsen, Jakob; Tahir, Marie (2001). Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed. In mint condition Riders Publishing. ISBN .
• Nielsen, Jakob; Loranger, Hoa (2006). Prioritizing Web Usability. New Catches Publishing. ISBN .
• Nielsen, Jakob; Pernice, Kara (2009). Eyetracking Web Usability. New Riders Promulgation. ISBN .
• Nielsen, Jakob; Budiu, Raluca (2012). Mobile Usability. New Riders Publishing. ISBN .

Articles

This comment a select list of Nielsen's obtainable research, which includes:

See also

References

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