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About Jakob Nielsen

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Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., 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). Until 1998 he was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer.

Dr. Nielsen founded the "discount usability engineering" movement for fast and cheap improvements of user interfaces and has invented several usability methods, including heuristic evaluation. He holds 70 United States patents, mainly on ways of making the Internet easier to use.

Column

Alertbox column on Web usability, published on the Internet since 1995 (current readership: 9 million page views per year).

Books

Professional Background

Dr. Nielsen was usability lead for several design and redesign rounds of Sun's website and intranet (SunWeb), including the original SunWeb design in 1994.

His earlier affiliations include Bellcore (Bell Communications Research), the Technical University of Denmark, and the IBM User Interface Institute at the T.J. Watson Research Center. He holds a Ph.D. in user interface design/computer science from the Technical University of Denmark.

Nielsen is on the editorial board of Morgan Kaufmann Publishers' book series in Interactive Technologies; contact him if you are planning an advanced book on user interfaces.

Professional journal editorial board memberships: ACM interactions magazine, Behaviour & Information Technology, Interacting with Computers, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, World Wide Web. For each journal, contact the editor-in-chief to submit a manuscript.

In June 2000, Dr. Nielsen was inducted into the Scandinavian Interactive Media Hall of Fame.


Dr. Jakob Nielsen
Nielsen Norman Group
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Website: http://www.useit.com

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