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| | IT Conversations: Jakob Nielsen - Larry's World |
 | | Nielsen worked at Bellcore, IBM and as a senior researcher at computer company Sun Microsystems. | | | Nielsen is generally regarded as the leading authority on usability. | | | Jakob Nielsen is a author, speaker and consultant on software and web-design usability. |
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http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail670.html
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| | PIXELSURGEON Interviews Design Jakob Nielsen |
| | Nielsen's Alertbox column about Web usability has been published on the Internet since 1995 and currently has about 200,000 readers. | | | Donald A. Norman (former VP of research at Apple Computer). | | | Once we publish these guidelines, Flash designers will be better positioned to deliver functionality over the Web in ways that empower users rather than confuse them, as can easily be the case when you start adding features. |
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http://www.pixelsurgeon.com/interviews/interview.php?id=45
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| | Amazon.com: Usability Engineering (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies): Books: Jakob Nielsen |
| | Nielsen never specifically advocates this, the logical conclusion of his approach is an interface design whose personality and soul have been stripped away in a slavish preference for pure, unencumbered efficiency and usability. | | | Nielsen's observations, conclusions and suggestions continue to be very valuable in helping to pull interface design towards much needed greater usability and functionality, his mistake seems to be that this is all he sees as being important. | | | Nielsen, in his book, very aptly points out typical errors and common stumbling blocks of interface design, and presents very convincing arguments and methods for solving these problems. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0125184069?v=glance
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| | Demystifying Usability : How Usable is Jakob Nielsen? |
| | Jakob Nielsen has a computer science PhD and is Danish by origin. | | | Since I did my masters research in the usability of virtual environments, it appears to me that Nielsen has never looked at any of the research in 3D usability that has come out of British universities or the Human Interface Technology lab at the University of Washington, for example. | | | By taking the National Enquirer (a supermarket tabloid newspaper) approach to communication, Nielsen is doing a disservice to the usability practitioner community by not imparting best practices in communicating usability insights. |
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http://experiencedynamics.blogs.com/site_search_usability/2004/04/how_usable_is_j.html
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| | JeffCroft.com: Jakob’s Ten Mistakes: Responses from a real live web designer |
| | Jakob is not a web designer or developer, and yet he continues to pony up solutions. | | | Jakob is wrong - users do care about technology when it makes their browsing cooler, easier, or more entertaining. | | | It’s not Jakob’s concepts I disagree with, tis’ the absoluteness with which he communicates them — as if every problem has exactly one solution and his way is the only way. |
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http://jeffcroft.com/blog/archives/2005/10/jakobs_ten_mist.php
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| | Washingtonpost.com: Business and Technology - .com |
| | Jakob has been studying information design since before the personal computer was born in the early 1980s. | | | We're delighted to have Jakob Nielsen here today to help us understand the chaos that is the Internet. | | | Using his Ph.D. in "user interface design" -- the face that computers present to people -- Nielsen advises businesses on how to make their Web sites easier to navigate. |
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http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/zforum/99/walker061799.htm
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| | Moving WebWord > Spanking Jakob Nielsen |
| | In summary, Jakob Nielsen makes some fantastic claims about intranet usability that must be weighed against other business needs and constraints. | | | For example, there might be better ways to spend money than on usability, not all usability improvements are created equal, and it can be hard to apply the changes dictated by a usability study. | | | To summarize, I think that Nielsen assumes that the best use of money is to use it on usability. |
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http://webword.com/moving/spanking.html
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| | Nielsen, Jakob (Author at Usable Web) |
| | Jakob Nielsen presents some numbers to argue that it is economical to teach discount usability engineering techniques that are easy, fast and cheap to all Web authors. | | | Jakob Nielsen's view on why people use the Web even though 9 out of 10 sites are harder to use than they need to be: | | | In his first-ever Alertbox article (June 1995), Jakob Nielsen uses the lessons learned from HyperCard to warn about the proliferation of bad user interface design with the spread of Java. |
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http://usableweb.com/authors/nielsenjakob.html
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| | Flash critic to coach Macromedia CNET News.com |
| | Nielsen said intelligent use of Flash is all the more critical as the software becomes the foundation for many Web pages. | | | The company is promoting the new version of the software, Flash MX, as the basis for delivering Web applications that make sites more useful and easier to navigate. | | | Macromedia plans to announce a partnership Monday with Jakob Nielsen, a leading Web design guru and one of the most prominent critics of the company's Flash software for Web animation. |
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http://news.com.com/2100-1040-930301.html
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| | Nielsen - Designing Web Usability : books : uidesign.net |
| | Usability Engineering is an emerging science (some might claim psuedo-science) which aims to measure the usability of a given piece of software, device or information appliance. | | | Chapter 2 which is dedicated to Web Page Design contains considerable analysis of links and much of it is interesting and useful but leaves as many questions open as it answers. | | | A review of "Designing Web Usability" by Jakob Nielsen |
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http://www.uidesign.net/2000/books/webusability.html
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| | Thirty years with computers: Builder AU: Web Development: Site Design |
| | That same year, I'll own a computer that runs at 3PHz CPU speed, has a petabyte (a thousand terabytes) of memory, half an exabyte (a billion gigabytes) of hard disk-equivalent storage and connects to the Internet with a bandwidth of a quarter terabit (a trillion binary digits) per second. | | | According to Moore's Law, computer power doubles every 18 months, meaning that computers will be a million times more powerful by 2034. | | | If we keep human needs in mind and harness the increased computer power appropriately, there will be great and exciting things ahead in our field. |
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http://www.builderau.com.au/webdev/sitedesign/0,39024698,39129283,00.htm
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| | CNN.com - Web usability guru pitches better design in Asia - February 23, 2001 |
| | Nielsen finds that Asian cultures are less likely to accept the critical analysis needed to generate better user interface design. | | | "First is that they just neglect the entire issue because they think their own Web site is easy to use because they designed it so they don't understand the need for usability testing," says Nielsen. | | | Web usability expert Jakob Nielsen says sites have ignored the user |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/02/23/web.usability
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| | Jakob Nielsen Interview - WebReference.com |
| | Nielsen: My main complaint is that almost all Web content could have been printed out and would work as well. | | | We interview Dr. Jakob Nielsen, the Web's usability czar, about his new book (Designing Web Usability), usability strategies, the Web's future, and why IE8 will finally get it right. | | | There is very little work on inventing new writing styles that will work for the impatient (and scanning) Web users. |
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http://www.webreference.com/new/nielsen.html
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| | CNN.com - Searching for answers on the Web - Aug 26, 2004 |
| | Nielsen: Well first, to be positive, I think that things have indeed improved over the past 10 years. | | | Nielsen: Often the best Web sites are the simplest ones, so you think of a Web site like Google. | | | People don't want that, they don't want to sit there and read a lot, they don't want to click a lot, either. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/08/09/jakob.nielsen
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| | Design by Fire: An open letter to Jakob Nielsen |
| | Upon reading Jakob's book "Designing Web Usability..." in 2000, I felt enlightened to the properties that must be present for a Web site to work. | | | I definitely agree with you that usability is (or must be) an implicit part of any design (process), but Nielsen will know when to criticize a design, for example the BMW. | | | Andrei does a great job pointing out that Nielsen should get his act cleaned up, by understanding that it isn't "good usability that creates better design", but in fact "good design that creates better usability". |
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http://www.designbyfire.com/000068.html
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| | Jakob Nielsen On Usability |
| | Let me postulate a possible conclusion from this usability study that's quite different from what Jakob assumes: the power users want to have a layout that's optimal, one that will make naive users just as happy and which will meet their needs just fine. | | | One side-effect of learning this at Apple was that Apple gained a few new bibles (that is, books you could reasonably expect to find in 75%+ of everyone's cubicles): Tufte's "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" and Norman's "The Design of Everyday Things" were the two most obvious. | | | Power users do the same things as naive users -- browse web pages -- but want to do it more efficiently so that they can save time. |
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http://www.scripting.com/98/04/stories/nielsenOnUsability.html
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| | Jakob Nielsen, author & Web site usability guru |
| | Jakob Nielsen: From 1983 to 1993, I had been working on usability and hypertext, so when the Web started to become big in 1994, it was natural for me to combine my two interests and do Web usability. | | | Nielsen is perhaps the best known advocate for simplifying the online user experience. | | | He has invented several usability methods and holds 71 patents in the U.S., primarily surrounding the ways to make the Internet easier to use. |
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http://www.publish.com/article2/0,,1762057,00.asp
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| | Interview with Dr. Jakob Nielsen (Part 1) |
| | Jakob Nielsen is a User Advocate and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group, which he co-founded with Dr. Donald A. Norman (former VP of research at Apple Computer). | | | He is also the author of Designing Web Usability: The Practice Of Simplicity. | | | UseIt.com has a very devoted following among CEOs, webmasters and general users of the Web. |
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http://www.ibizinterviews.com/jakobn1.htm
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| | Design by Fire: Design Eye for the Usability Guy |
| | The revised Alertbox summary is an improvement on Jakob's problematic language. | | | Never thought Nielsen could be on the sexy end of the webscale. | | | Here's Nielsen's original language, and here's the rewrite. |
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http://www.designbyfire.com/000094.html
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| | Amazon.com: Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity: Books: Jakob Nielsen |
| | While everyone wants to design cool web sites, no one wants to think simple and consider whether the design actually accomplishes its goal, which is usually to sell, teach, or entertain. | | | The implied insult in "Designing Web Uability" is that users are dimwitted drones who can't be expected to deal with idiosyncrasy. | | | Packed with annotated examples of actual Web sites, this book sets out many of the design precepts all Web developers should follow. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/156205810X?v=glance
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| | Macromedia - Press room : Macromedia and Usability Guru Jakob Nielsen Work Together to Improve Web Usability |
| | Macromedia and Jakob Nielsen will be working together to help designers and developers learn how to take advantage of the opportunities of this new market segment by developing best practices for rich Internet applications. | | | Besides authoring books and evangelizing about user experience, they and the other user-experience specialists in Nielsen Norman Group offer high-level strategic consultation on usability of websites, consumer products, software designs, and anything else that needs to be easy-to-use. | | | The result of delivering these more intuitive, responsive applications will be increased productivity and better experiences for end users. |
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http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/proom/pr/2002/macromedia_nielsen.html
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| | A Discussion with Jakob Nielsen and Vincent Flanders - WEB DESIGN ROUNDTABLE - CIO Magazine Dec 1,2001 |
| | NIELSEN: Websites can get a differentiating advantage by being human centered, studying the users and figuring out how they do things. | | | They need to find out where the opportunities are for doing things differently—not just automating the way things are done today. | | | FLANDERS: Creating a site that solves problems will differentiate a website from other sites that are just there to show off how cool they are or what kind of brand they are trying to sell. |
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http://www.cio.com/archive/120101/online.html
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| | Shirky: An Open Letter to Jakob Nielsen |
| | Jakob's ideas are laid out in "User Interface Directions for the Web", CACM, January 1999. | | | Let me preface all of this by noting what we agree on: the Web is host to some hideous dreck; things would be better for users if Web designers made usability more of a priority; and there are some basics of interface usability that one violates at one's peril. | | | Jakob believes that the prevalence of bad design on the Web is an indication that the current method of designing Web sites is not working and should be replaced or augmented with a single set of design conventions. |
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http://www.shirky.com/writings/nielsen.html
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| | BBC News DOT LIFE Keep the web simple, stupid |
| | In reply, Nielsen told BBC News Online that by championing web usability - the mechanics of making sites work for the user - he is the defender of simplicity, fulfillment and humanity itself. | | | In a salvo against all those who damn cutting edge web design, Davis speculated that his vision of the net was so far removed from that of Nielsen that the two might engage in fisticuffs should they ever meet. | | | Designers can often take their work too seriously, with the result that websites are less easy to use and ultimately less satisfying, he says. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/newsid_1779000/1779849.stm
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| | BBC NEWS UK How the web makes 'desk-chair generals' of us all |
| | Jakob Nielsen - a persistent critic of websites - says in this war, internet news users might just have the edge. | | | The constraints of the web, imposed by download times and impatient surfers, means it has a tendency to summarise and give short and simple overviews. | | | There can never have been a war when so much information was available to so many. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2914511.stm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed: Books |
| | Jakob should use his position to push web standardisation. | | | There will also be a summarizing few paragraphs where Jakob explains his analysis and offers suggestions for improving the design for usability | | | This definitive work is co-authored by Jakob Nielsen--the accepted industry expert in Web usability--and Marie Tahir, an expert in user profiling. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/073571102X
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| | IT-Director.com: Interview: Jakob Nielsen on usability and |
| | Holding more than 50 patents on web usability and a reputation for being the defining voice on web usability, Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D. is a man that knows how to make a web site - be it internal or external - work. | | | With a background running from VP of research at Apple to distinguished Engineer at Sun, he currently preaches the usability mantra from his position as Principal of the Nielsen Norman Group, which he co-founded. | | | I think the intranet is one of the most important developments an organisation can make in terms of improving its productivity and efficiency. |
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http://www.it-director.com/article.php?id=2383
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| | BW Online March 2, 2000 Jakob Nielsen's Gospel of Good Web Design |
| | Nielsen, whose weekly musings on the Web can be found at www.useit.com, is a usability engineer and Web-design consultant given to strongly held ideas and sweeping statements, like "fast response times are the most important criterion for Web pages." His certitude might be insufferable if he weren't right so much of the time. | | | While aimed at the folks who actually design sites, this book, which treads lightly on technical issues, should also be read by any executive with responsibility for managing online operations. | | | A book may seem like a terribly old-fashioned way to learn how to function in the New Economy. |
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http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2000/nf00302e.htm
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| | Developer Spotlight: Jakob Nielsen: Builder AU: Web Development |
| | We caught up with Nielsen to talk about the Web, open source software, the future of 3D interfaces and mobile devices. | | | As the browser becomes less of a focus to vendors such as Microsoft, what is the future? | | | I think calling the Mac OS X user interface "3d" is a misnom... |
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http://www.builderau.com.au/webdev/0,39024680,39130602,00.htm
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| | v-2 Organisation interface + usability Jakob Nielsen: slick and wrong |
| | The problem with the Jakob Nielsen approach is that a site designed solely from the perspective of usability is useless from the perspective of emotion. | | | Must your site still be fast-loading, consistent, as intuitive as possible? | | | This is a profoundly emotional environment, and the tools which will succeed in this environment are, finally, tools that speak to those emotions. |
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http://www.v-2.org/displayArticle.php?article_num=20
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| | The infamous Jakob Nielsen |
| | Nielsen has never used his website to test his theories (trying variants and polling users, for example)-- he obviously considers his design optimal, based on (ancient) lab experiments. | | | Almost my only specific gripe with Nielsen's message (as opposed to his method and his style) is his personal responsibility for the prevalence of short pages on the Web. |
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http://www.robotwisdom.com/issues/nielsen.html
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| | The Old Joel on Software Forum - Jakob Nielsen |
| | But lately, he's gone off the deep end. | | | The Old Joel on Software Forum - Jakob Nielsen | | | Nielsen's always been a little bit nutty, but in between the nuttiness you could find some good advice. |
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http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware?cmd=show&ixPost=23371
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| | Free Pint Newsletter 125 - 5th Birthday, Jakob Nielsen, China |
| | I suggested that the software could lead to developers not thinking deeply enough about site design. | | | On a broader level how does Jakob see the state of Web design currently? | | | So, who does Jakob think is going to buy the software? |
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http://www.freepint.com/issues/141102.htm
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| | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Usability: Usability Basics |
| | Big problems in the design are obvious after just a few user tests. | | | Needing only five people to find major problems, see Jakob Nielsen, Why You Only Need To Test With 5 Users, Alertbox, March 19, 2000, http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000319.html | | | Different goals for usability testing (diagnostic, comparative, verification), see How formal or informal should usability testing be? |
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http://usability.gov/basics
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| | CNN.com - Tech will cause a real estate crash - May 31, 2005 |
| | Jakob Nielsen is an expert on human use of technology. | | | (CNN) -- Web usability expert Jakob Nielsen predicts that more people will live in rural settings, with technology enabling them to do almost anything they like, be it work or play, without leaving their homes. | | | Nielsen said that technology would make it ever more attractive to live in small towns and rural areas, which would undermine many of the advantages currently held by big cities, including: |
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/05/12/visionary.nielsen
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| | Hacking Jakob Nielsen |
| | Back before your mother had email, Jakob Nielsen was a research scientist at Bellcore, a research lab jointly funded by a consortium of the Baby Bells, where he studied usability and user interfaces. | | | This is probably something that any of us would do, but few of us would think as big as Jakob did. | | | Of course, mailing lists have people on them in the end, and most of us are on more than one list. |
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http://www.dourish.com/nielsen.html
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| | WebReference.com - New Riders Interview with Jakob Nielsen and Marie Tahir (1/6) |
| | JAKOB: Despite the beauty of the Internet, in all its greatness, old-fashioned technology still has a place, and our general philosophy is that you should use the appropriate technology for the user's needs. | | | We felt it would be a good idea to compile and publish information from our experiences for the world to see. | | | JAKOB: In my case, it was a gradual progression. |
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http://www.webreference.com/authoring/design/usability/interview
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| | MarketingProfs Signup |
| | I've found a way to become Jakob Nielsen, the Internet's usability prophet. | | | I can now possess Jakob's thoughts, drive his car and, most importantly, redesign his Web site, into something that is both usable and attractive. |
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http://www.marketingprofs.com/4/kukral1.asp
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| | Jakob Nielsen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant), a software and Web usability consultant | | | This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. | | | Jakob Nielsen is the name of two notable people: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nielsen
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| | Usability Makes the Web Click |
| | In 1994, after a stint at IBM's User Interface Institute, he joined the usability lab at Sun Microsystems, where he served as a "distinguished engineer" until this past summer. | | | Nielsen is making it his business to change all that. | | | Jakob Nielsen has spent the past 15 years pioneering the art and the science - but mainly the science - of user interfaces. |
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http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/18/usability.html
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| | BBspot - Jakob Nielsen Declares the Letter "C" Unusable |
| | The implications of Nielsen's first suggested change could be as far reaching as the.com extension itself. | | | Fremont, CA - Software usability expert Jakob Nielsen made a surprise announcement on his website useit.com this week that he will be branching out from website/software usability and now be including lingual and cultural usability into his studies. | | | Others discount this theory by pointing out that no one really follows any of Nielsen's rules anyway, so "...why would they start now?" Others suggest that the idea would first have to be adopted by the Internet's standardization body, the W3C, which may be unwilling to become the W3K until the idea is adopted elsewhere. |
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http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/07/letter_c.html
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| | IM, Not IP (Information Pollution) |
| | JAKOB NIELSEN is principal of Nielsen Norman Group, a user research company focused on making technology more suited to humans. | | | Nielsen's books include Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity and Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed. | | | He was previously a Sun Microsystems distinguished engineer and holds 71 U.S. patents on ways of improving Internet usability. |
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http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=printer_friendly&pid=96&page=1
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| | Vastly Important Notes: Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox |
| | Digitally sign all information to prevent tampering and develop a simple way to inform users whether something is from a trusted source. | | | Jakob Nielsen has posted a new alert entitled "User Education Is Not the Answer to Security Problems" (amen). | | | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox: |
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http://www.vastlyimportant.com/vastly/2004/10/jakob_nielsens_.html
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| | Epinions.com - jakob's profile |
| | I used to work in the computer and telephone industries, but always with an emphasis on the usability of online information systems. | | | Since 1994, I have focused on the usability of the Web, and since 1998 I have done so in my own company, Nielsen Norman Group (a partnership with Don Norman). | | | Epinions.com periodically updates pricing and product information from third-party sources, |
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http://www.epinions.com/user-jakob
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| | Time for a Redesign: Dr. Jakob Nielsen |
| | "It's still a horrible experience to do business with most companies," Nielsen says, "because, honestly, their computer systems remain so cumbersome and customer-hostile." | | | If Nielsen's status today is less Papal, he's nevertheless continued to build a body of research, best practices and technologies (including a remarkable 73 patents), all of which relate to how companies can actually get the increased productivity and business value from IT that has so long been promised. | | | Danish-born Dr. Jakob Nielsen, 46, who completed his doctorate in computer-human interaction at the Technical University of Denmark in 1988, made a name for himself in Silicon Valley during the late 1990s as a champion of minimalism and ease-of-use in Web site design. |
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http://www.cioinsight.com/print_article/0,1406,a=129234,00.asp
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| | Ajax Sucks Most of the Time (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox December 2005) |
| | Judging from the email I receive, the most controversial statement I have made in my Alertbox columns so far was to make "the use of Ajax" one of the mistakes in my list of top ten mistakes in Web design. | | | Please compare it with the original and you will see how little it has been changed. | | | Ajax Sucks Most of the Time (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox December 2005) |
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http://www.usabilityviews.com/ajaxsucks.html
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| | Jakob Nielsen - www.webanalysis.co.uk -> Cre8asite Forums |
| | I can't answer the poll because my opinion would change for each software app or web design I do. | | | There are a number of polls on the site (www.webanalysis.co.uk) referring to web design and Jakob’s work. | | | The reason for this is that when they introduce a usability concept, they reinforce it by linking to a number of sources. |
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http://www.cre8asiteforums.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=952&st=0
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| | Usability News - Ann's Rant: Stop, or Dr Nielsen gets it! - the Backlash in Usability? |
| | Contact Us The All the Latest section presents all general usability news articles | | | A few years ago, Jakob was King and we were delighted that someone had managed to raise awareness of usability and the benefit to design that involving the user might yield. | | | Sometimes his topics for comment are no longer confined to what all would define as user-centred design. |
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http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article493.asp
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