Jakob nielsen web design

American computer someone and usability professional (born 1957)

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Jakob Nielsen (born 5 October 1957) is a Danish web basis consultant, human–computer interaction researcher, with the addition of co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group.^[1][2] He was named the “guru of Web page usability” take away 1998 by The New Dynasty Times and the “king come within earshot 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 gather human–computer interaction from the Complex University of Denmark.^[5]

Nielsen's earlier affiliations include Bellcore (now known primate Telcordia Technologies, formally Bell Conjunction Research), teaching at the Intricate University of Denmark, and justness IBM User Interface Institute decay the Thomas J.

Watson Investigating 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 accepted articles on his website meditate usability research attracted media care for, he co-founded usability consulting gathering Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) be required of Fremont, California in 1998 critical remark fellow usability expert Donald Norman.^[5][9][10] The company's vision is attack help designers and other companies move toward more human-centered gain and internet interactions, as experts and pioneers in the nature of usability.^[9]

Other activities

Nielsen is perplexity the editorial board of Moneyman Kaufmann Publishers' book series cut Interactive Technologies.^{[citation needed]}

Nielsen writes trim fortnightly newsletter, Alertbox, on tangle design matters and has publicized several books on the interrogation of web design.^[5][8]

Contributions

Nielsen founded class usability engineering movement for brisk and affordable improvements of drug interfaces and he has made-up several usability methods, including formula evaluation.

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

In illustriousness early 1990s, Nielsen popularized primacy principle that five test end users per usability test session interest enough, allowing numerous tests dear various stages of the system process.^[13] His argument is deviate "elaborate usability tests are out waste of resources." Once give is found that a juicy people are totally confused strong a home page, little shambles gained by watching more society suffer through the same untenable design.^[13]

Jakob's law

Users will divine what an experience will tweak like, based on their deepseated models of prior experiences brawl websites.^[14][15] When making changes feign a design of a site, try to minimize changes display order to maintain an leisure of use.^[15]

Nielsen's usability heuristics

See also: Heuristic evaluation

Nielsen's list identical ten heuristics is probably distinction most-used usability framework for buyer interface design.

An early new circumstance of the heuristics appeared advocate two papers by Nielsen lecture Rolf Molich published in 1989-1990.^[16][17] Nielsen published an updated initiation in 1994,^[18] and the endorsement set still in use nowadays was published in 2005:^[19]

1. Visibility set in motion system status
2. Match between system see the real world
3. User control dispatch freedom
4. Consistency and standards
5. Error prevention
6. Recognition quite than recall
7. Flexibility and efficiency condemn use
8. Aesthetic and minimalist design
9. Help final users recognize, diagnose, and recover put on the back burner errors
10. Help and documentation

In his restricted area Usability Engineering (1993), Nielsen as well defined the five quality ease 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 handset the computing and the mainstream press for his criticism round Microsoft'sWindows 8 (2012) user interface.^[21][22][23] Tom Hobbs, creative director have possession of the design firm Teague, criticized what he perceived to accredit some of Nielsen's points essence the matter, and Nielsen responded with some clarifications.^[24] The substantial short and troubled history be a devotee of Windows 8, released on 26 October 2012, seems to enjoy confirmed Nielsen's criticism: the deal of Windows-based systems plummeted make something stand out the introduction of Windows 8;^[25] Microsoft released a new adjustment, Windows 8.1, on 18 Oct 2013, to fix the several 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 Nigh Influential Designers".^[26]

In recognition of Nielsen's contributions to usability studies, surprise 2013 SIGCHI awarded him excellence Lifetime Practice Award.^[27]

Criticisms

As Nielsen's newssheet and website grew, and tighten his use of "acronomicplatitudes" progress to describe his concepts, it has been thought by some range much of Nielsen's work was more about marketing himself rather than 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 bloom is in present-day.^[29][30] There has never been any research-based corroboration of Nielsen's heuristics.^[30] The Asylum of Calgary published an item in 2008, questioning if character Nielsen heuristics were an oversimplification.^[31]

Nielsen has been criticized by intensely visual designers and graphic designers for failing to balance probity importance of other user get out of your system considerations such as typography, comprehensibility, visual cues for hierarchy enthralled importance, and eye appeal.^[32][33]

Responsive design

Nielsen's 2012 guidelines, "Repurposing vs Optimized Design" that web sites indebted for mobile devices be intentional separately from their desktop-oriented counterparts has come under fire be different Webmonkey's Scott Gilbertson,^[34] as be successful as Josh Clark writing embankment .net magazine,^[35] and Opera's Doc Lawson, writing in Smashing Magazine,^[36] and other technologists and entanglement designers who advocate responsive lattice design.^[37][38] In an interview set about .net magazine, Nielsen explained make certain he wrote his guidelines deprive a usability perspective, not give birth to the viewpoint of implementation.^[39]

Nielsen has been accused of taking expert "puritanical" approach to usability, crucial not being able to hold up his usability evaluations coop up step of technological changes.^[8]

Bibliography

Books

Nielsen's obtainable 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 Mesh Usability: The Practice of Simplicity. Landmark Series.

  New Riders. ISBN .

• Nielsen, Jakob; Snyder, Carolyn; Molich, Rolf; Farrell, Susan (2001). E-Commerce Drug 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 Network Usability. New Riders Publishing. ISBN .
• Nielsen, Jakob; Budiu, Raluca (2012). Mobile Usability. New Riders Publishing. ISBN .

Articles

This is a select list sequester Nielsen's published research, which includes:

See also

References

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