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Jakob Nielsen
User Advocate and Principal
Nielsen Norman Group |
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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, a former vice president of research at Apple Computer.
An author and editor of numerous books on Web usability, Nielsen has been described as knowing "more about what makes Web sites work than anyone else on the planet" by the Chicago Tribune and as "the world's leading expert on Web usability" by U.S. News & World Report. He holds 60 United States patents, mainly on ways of making the Internet easier to use. In addition, Nielsen has invented several usability methods, including heuristic evaluation.
Until 1998, Nielsen was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer. Previously, he was affiliated with 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. |
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