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About Jakob Nielsen

• "the king of usability" (Internet Magazine)
• "the guru of Web page usability" (The New York Times)
• "the next best thing to a true time machine" (USA Today)
• "the smartest person on the Web" (ZDNet AnchorDesk)
• "the world's leading expert on Web usability" (U.S. News & World Report)
• one of the top ten minds in small business (FORTUNE Small Business)
• "the world's leading expert on user-friendly design" (Stuttgarter Zeitung, Germany)
• "knows more about what makes Web sites work than anyone else on the planet" (Chicago Tribune, March 6, 2000)
• "one of the world's foremost experts in Web usability" (Business Week)
• "the Web's usability czar" (WebReference.com)
• "the reigning guru of Web usability" (FORTUNE)
• "eminent Web usability guru" (CNN)
• "perhaps the best-known design and usability guru on the Internet" (Financial Times)
• "the usability Pope" (Wirtschaftswoche Magazine, Germany)
• "new-media pioneer" (Newsweek)

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 79 United States patents, mainly on ways of making the Internet easier to use.

• Publication and patent list
• Interviews and press coverage

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Books

• Prioritizing Web Usability, 2006
• Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed, 2001 (113 guidelines for homepage design)
• Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, 2000: a quarter million copies in print; 22 languages
• Usability Engineering, 1994: textbook on the methods needed to make interfaces easier to use
• Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond, 1995: second edition of textbook on linked online information
• Usability Inspection Methods, 1994 (co-editor with Robert L. Mack): with chapters by each of the inventors of these methods
• International User Interfaces, 1996 (co-editor with with Elisa del Galdo)
• Advances in Human-Computer Interaction Vol. 5, 1995 (editor)
• Hypertext and Hypermedia, 1990: the first edition of classic textbook (no longer in print)
• Designing User Interfaces for International Use, 1990 (editor)
• Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency, 1989 (editor): still the best book on how to get a standard look-and-feel (reprint edition published 2002)

Professional Background

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, Foundations and Trends in Human-Computer Interaction, Interacting with Computers, Journal of Usability Studies (JUS), International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia. 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.

Profiles

Builder.au Developer Spotlight: Jakob Nielsen

Digital Web Magazine An interview with Dr. Jakob Nielsen, usability expert

PixelSurgeon Jakob Nielsen Interview

IT-Director Jakob Nielsen on usability and intranets

eLearningPost Jakob Nielsen on e-learning

WebReference Jakob Nielsen Interview

SitePoint Interview - Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D.

CIO A Discussion with Jakob Nielsen and Vincent Flanders

CIO Insight Time for a Redesign: Dr. Jakob Nielsen

Wikipedia entry: Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant). Wikipedia also has articles about other people named Jakob Nielsen, which is why they need to put a disambiguating qualifier after my name.