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	Nielsen_Jakob (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nielsen taught a course on aerodynamics in 1941 and the course formed the basis of a third volume of his theoretical mechanics text published in 1952.
		In 1951 Nielsen succeeded Harald Bohr as professor of mathematics at the University of Copenhagen.
		Jakob Nielsen initiated much of the topology of surfaces and of combinatorial group theory, and for this reason alone he occupies an important place in the history of 20th century mathematics.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Nielsen_Jakob.html (1511 words)

	Nielsen - Designing Web Usability : books : uidesign.net
		Jakob Nielsen's background is as an academic in the field of HCI and more specifically Usability Engineering and the application of Usability Engineering on the emerging 1980s technology of hypertext.
		In Nielsen's world, there is no semantic difference between a hyperlinked piece of text like this one, and a navigation element such as you see all around the edge of this article.
		Jakob Nielsen is a scientist who makes educated guesses about interfaces and then proves or disproves them by experiment.
	www.uidesign.net /2000/books/webusability.html (2612 words)

	IT Conversations: Jakob Nielsen - Larry's World
		Jakob Nielsen is a author, speaker and consultant on software and web-design usability.
		Nielsen is generally regarded as the leading authority on usability.
		Nielsen continues to write a fortnightly newsletter on web design matters and has published several books on the subject of web design.
	www.itconversations.com /shows/detail670.html (441 words)

	Macromedia - Press room : Macromedia and Usability Guru Jakob Nielsen Work Together to Improve Web Usability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		Nielsen Norman Group (www.nngroup.com) is a user-experience think tank that advises companies on how to succeed through human-centered design of products and services.
		Nielsen Norman Group principals Jakob Nielsen, Don Norman, and Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini are each world-renowned experts in usability and human use of technology.
	www.macromedia.com /macromedia/proom/pr/2002/macromedia_nielsen.html (706 words)

	PIXELSURGEON \| Interviews \| Design \| Jakob Nielsen
		Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., is a User Advocate and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group, which he co-founded with Dr.
		Nielsen's Alertbox column about Web usability has been published on the Internet since 1995 and currently has about 200,000 readers.
		JAKOB: The very first impression was a splash page, which always says to me that this is a site that cares more about image than usability.
	www.pixelsurgeon.com /interviews/interview.php?id=45 (3301 words)

	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.
		Nielsen suggests regarding a usability design critique as a form of constructive assistance, to prevent loss of face for Asian designers.
		Jakob Nielsen is a principle of the Nielsen Norman group and is currently running a "User Experience World Tour" throughout Asia.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/02/23/web.usability (778 words)

	Jakob Nielsen Biography
		Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., is a User Advocate and principal of the
		Nielsen founded the "discount usability engineering" movement for fast and cheap improvements of user interfaces and has invented several usability methods, including heuristic evaluation.
		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.
	www.useit.com /jakob (511 words)

	Confusability: Is Jakob Nielsen evil, stupid or just plain lazy?
		Jakob himself is guilty of many of the sins he berates others for.
		I have attended the Nielsen roadshow in the past but I would recommend you spend your money on conferences and events that are a little more inclusive instead.
		Jakob Nielsen is almost always right in what he says (except when it comes to other topics than Usability [...]).
	usability.typepad.com /confusability/2005/06/is_jakob_nielse.html (1824 words)

	Flash critic to coach Macromedia \| CNET News.com
		Nielsen and his consulting firm, Nielsen Norman Group, will work with Macromedia to develop guidelines for creating practical, easy-to-use Web applications with the new version of Flash, Nielsen and Macromedia executives plan to announce at Nielsen's User Experience conference in San Francisco.
		Nielsen, whose objections to Flash were most directly stated in his essay "Flash: 99% Bad," argued that Flash-based multimedia typically makes Web sites harder to navigate and distracts from the site's real message.
		Nielsen credited Macromedia for listening to him and other critics, as evidenced by changes in Flash MX and by the company's growing efforts to educate customers about design techniques.
	news.com.com /2100-1040-930301.html (976 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Business and Technology - .com
		Jakob Nielsen: There are two reasons: the first, and the easiest to fix, is that most companies use "ego-centered design" instead of "user-centered design".
		Jakob Nielsen: I think it is getting better: a few years ago truly bloated pages with one huge image were common and download times often ballooned to the 30-40 second range.
		Jakob Nielsen: In the long term, sites that are not user-centered will die the death of the million mouse clicks as users go straight for the BACK button.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /zforum/99/walker061799.htm (3981 words)

	Moving WebWord > Spanking Jakob Nielsen
		Nielsen assumes that once people are given usability data that they will be able to make the right choices.
		Nielsen's estimates are based on the assumption of perfect implementation and the correct application of improvements.
		Nielsen wants us to think that ROI on usability is sky high, through the roof, and totally incredible.
	webword.com /moving/spanking.html (1933 words)

	Free Pint Newsletter 125 - 5th Birthday, Jakob Nielsen, China
		Jakob Nielsen, a principal of Nielsen Norman Group, has made it his mission to enhance the usability of the Web.
		Jakob was at pains to point out that these are not really separate topics but two sides of the same coin.
		Jakob agreed that it was a risk, but reckoned this concern was overdone.
	www.freepint.com /issues/141102.htm (4881 words)

	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.
		Nielsen says Boo.com's designers were too ambitious for the web as it was two or three years ago.
		But whatever their differences, the opposing visions of the web set out by Nielsen and Davis may not be as far apart as it first seems.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/newsid_1779000/1779849.stm (756 words)

	Demystifying Usability : How Usable is Jakob Nielsen? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nielsen's justification for his site seems ridiculous (he says he is "not a visual designer and didn't want to spend money to hire an artist").
		Jakob Nielsen has done a good job of inflaming the people he is supposed to be enlightening.
		Nielsen's famous "heuristics" (guidelines for web usability) are another area that shows that his popularity is more public relations than credit of invention.
	experiencedynamics.blogs.com /site_search_usability/2004/04/how_usable_is_j.html (2314 words)

	Design by Fire: An open letter to Jakob Nielsen
		Nielsen is simply stating his opinions; people can trust them or not as they choose, considering what they know of Nielsen's previous work and experience.
		Nielsen can be very extreme and fundamental about usability, but basically he is right, and so are you when you say that it is about design.
		If I'd feel the need to write a letter to Jakob Nielsen (as I already did privately), I'd ask him to be careful when writing about other areas than usability -- for example, as he wrote that there is no accesskey standard yet (12.), which is obviously wrong (see the UK Government accesskeys standard (2.4.4)).
	www.designbyfire.com /000068.html (11723 words)

	BBspot - Jakob Nielsen Declares the Letter "C" Unusable
		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.
		Nielsen goes on to address the "CH" issue, "Once we deprecate 'X' to no longer include the 'Z' sound property, it will be a prime candidate to take the 'C' place in the 'CH' sound.
		Nielsen then put the phone down and could be heard in the background rambling on about such items as baseball mits and the 'PH' sound.
	www.bbspot.com /News/2003/07/letter_c.html (730 words)

	Jakob Nielsen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jakob Nielsen is the name of two notable people:
		Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant), a software and Web usability consultant
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jakob_Nielsen (109 words)

	Nielsen, Jakob (Author at Usable Web)
		Jakob Nielsen outlines their lack of structure support and what site designers need to do in order to overcome browser shortcomings.
		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 adds up the requirements for audio, screen size, and other aspects of the user interface and comes up with the need for a Tbps personal connection.
	usableweb.com /authors/nielsenjakob.html (3285 words)

	The Old Joel on Software Forum - Jakob Nielsen
		No doubt, eventually something like Nielsen's predictions will be realized, but his giddy tone is really grating.
		Nielsen's always been a little bit nutty, but in between the nuttiness you could find some good advice.
		Much as I dislike Jakob Nielsen (too ready to shoot his mouth off, and too often lets his personal biases influence his research) - I think your criticism of the last alertbox is too harsh (not the Harry Potter one).
	discuss.fogcreek.com /joelonsoftware?cmd=show&ixPost=23371 (565 words)

	CNN.com - Searching for answers on the Web - Aug 26, 2004
		Nielsen: The biggest mistake is really not getting to the point, not telling people what they can do on the Web sites, what it is about (and) smothering the information in hypertalk, in slogans, in indirectness, in cuteness.
		Nielsen: I completely anticipate better days ahead because it is the survival of the easiest, which I call the sign Darwinism.
		Nielsen: Well, I think the most important may actually be the tablet PC and the ability to also have mobile and wireless connection to get online at anytime and at any place.
	www.cnn.com /2004/TECH/08/09/jakob.nielsen (2034 words)

	Amazon.com: Usability Engineering (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies): Books: Jakob Nielsen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		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.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0125184069?v=glance (2227 words)

	JeffCroft.com: Jakob’s Ten Mistakes: Responses from a real live web designer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jakob Nielsen, everyone’s favorite usability expert, has published his Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005.
		Nielsen, in my humble opinion, is to be on target, yet sensational and extremist.
		Jakob Nielsen is renowned (or maybe notorious) for communicating his ideas as if he is a parent scolding a child, even though that might not be his intention.
	jeffcroft.com /blog/archives/2005/10/jakobs_ten_mist.php (6250 words)

	ipedia.com: Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jakob Nielsen is a writer, speaker, and consultant on software and web-design usability.
		Jakob Nielsen is generally regarded as the leading authority on usability.
		Nielsen writes a fortnightly newsletter on web design matters and has published several books on the subject of web design.
	www.ipedia.com /jakob_nielsen__usability_consultant_.html (209 words)

	Amazon.com: Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity: Books: Jakob Nielsen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For example, Nielsen addresses the requirements of viewing pages on varying monitor sizes separately from writing concise text for "scanability." Along the way, the author pulls no punches with his opinions, using phrases like "frames: just say no" to immediately make his feelings known.
		Jakob Nielsen's bizarre insistence on treating the Web as if the years 1996 through 2000 had never happened is the sort of lapse in his otherwise-cogent thinking that will doom him to irrelevance.
		Nielsen loses sight of this, which makes him dangerous; half-competent project managers who take up his cause without ever having designed a Web site themselves are more dangerous still.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/156205810X?v=glance (1932 words)

	Shirky: An Open Letter to Jakob Nielsen
		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.
		Jakob's ideas are laid out in "User Interface Directions for the Web", CACM, January 1999.
		Jakob, I read your response to my CACM letter with great interest, and while I still disagree, I think I better understand the disagreement, and will try to set out my side of the argument in this letter.
	www.shirky.com /writings/nielsen.html (1667 words)

	Usability News - Ann's Rant: Stop, or Dr Nielsen gets it! - the Backlash in Usability?
		In 1998, Jakob Nielsen's ubiquity led a reviewer to comment that the man was not as famous as Elvis.
		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.
		Nielsen was one of the people singled out for criticism in a talk written up this week on UN (see Prodding at the Limits of User-centred Design for an explanation of why it was a well-intentioned argument with a less than successful outcome).
	www.usabilitynews.com /news/article493.asp (1209 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jakob's Law has an unbelievable importance: "users spend most of their time on other sites than your site.".
		Jakob is really trying to hurry the web forwards into useful maturity, and who can blame him.
		In this book, Jakob and Marie attempt to identify the common components that most websites share, (such as company logo, navigation area, news area, about us link, search function, legal wording etc) and recommend a consistent way of displaying these common components.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/073571102X (1348 words)

	Jakob Nielsen Interview - WebReference.com
		Nielsen: The most important thing is to discover the three main reasons users come to your site and make these things extremely fast and obvious to do.
		Nielsen: The two are partially opposed in that the most gorgeous designs usually are bloated.
		Nielsen: Empirically, the blandest sites are the ones that get the most page views and the most users.
	www.webreference.com /new/nielsen.html (968 words)

	Jakob Nielsen On Usability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		While I agree with Jakob Nielsen's main point about the benefit-cost analysis of usability testing, I'm fed up with the unsupported claim he makes that "us nerds" are somehow different -- exactly opposite, in his words -- in how we want our buttons laid out or in any other aspect.
		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.
		It's admittedly only one data point, but unfortunately, this data point bears out Jakob Nielsen: power users and especially developers are inclined to make choices that leave less experienced users behind, unless they've studied human interface design pretty extensively.
	www.scripting.com /98/04/stories/nielsenOnUsability.html (781 words)

	CNN.com - Tech will cause a real estate crash - May 31, 2005
		Jakob Nielsen: "Overall, the balance between remote regions and the center will change in favor of a more distributed lifestyle."
		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:
		Jakob Nielsen is an expert on human use of technology.
	www.cnn.com /2005/TECH/05/12/visionary.nielsen (492 words)

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