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Nielsen, Jakob was born on October 5, 1957 in Copenhagen. Arrived in the United States, 1990, naturalized, 2001. Son of Gerhard and Helle (Hofner).
(In 2000, Jakob Nielsen, the world’s leading expert on Web...)
In 2000, Jakob Nielsen, the world’s leading expert on Web usability, published a book that changed how people think about the Web—Designing Web Usability (New Riders). Many applauded. A few jeered. But everyone listened. The best-selling usability guru is back and has revisited his classic guide, joined forces with Web usability consultant Hoa Loranger, and created an updated companion book that covers the essential changes to the Web and usability today. Prioritizing Web Usability is the guide for anyone who wants to take their Web site(s) to next level and make usability a priority! Through the authors’ wisdom, experience, and hundreds of real-world user tests and contemporary Web site critiques, you’ll learn about site design, user experience and usability testing, navigation and search capabilities, old guidelines and prioritizing usability issues, page design and layout, content design, and more!
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( In the years since Jakob Nielsen's classic collection o...)
In the years since Jakob Nielsen's classic collection on interface consistency first appeared, much has changed, and much has stayed the same. On the one hand, there's been exponential growth in the opportunities for following or disregarding the principles of interface consistency-more computers, more applications, more users, and of course the vast expanse of the Web. On the other, there are the principles themselves, as persistent and as valuable as ever. In these contributed chapters, you'll find details on many methods for seeking and enforcing consistency, along with bottom-line analyses of its benefits and some warnings about its possible dangers. Most of what you'll learn applies equally to hardware and software development, and all of it holds real benefits for both your organization and your users. * Begins with a new preface by the collection's distinguished editor. * Details a variety of methods for attaining interface consistency, including central control, user definitions, exemplary applications, shared code, and model analysis. * Presents a cost-benefits analysis of organizational efforts to promote and achieve consistency. * Examines and appraises the dimensions of consistency-consistency within an application, across a family of applications, and beyond. * Makes the case for some unexpected benefits of interface consistency while helping you avoid the risks it can sometimes entail. * Considers the consistency of interface elements other than screen design. * Includes case studies of major corporations that have instituted programs to ensure the consistency of their products.
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(A comprehensive, clearly written overview of hypertext, t...)
A comprehensive, clearly written overview of hypertext, this book gives broad coverage of different hypertext systems, as well as their features and applications using many concrete examples and illustrations of real systems. Nielsen provides a history of the subject and explores the social issues related to hypertext.
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( Based on his best-selling HyperText and HpyerMedia, Jak...)
Based on his best-selling HyperText and HpyerMedia, Jakob Nielsen takes hypertext a step further--to the Internet. Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond explores new and developing applications in multimedia and hypertext as well as offering coverage of the use of HTML (hypertext markup language) and the World Wide Web with interfaces such as Mosaic and Netscape. * Includes a large number of richly illustrated examples of a wide variety of new hypermedia systems. * Provides a range of strategies for overcoming information overload. * Thorougly discusses a number of new applications, including distribution of hypertext tools via the Internet. * Explains copyright issues for users and develeopers, and usability issues for hypertext. * Forecasts the future of the field in the long and short term.
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(Increasing technological sophistication in many countries...)
Increasing technological sophistication in many countries and the resulting larger world trade has indicated a need to pay greater attention to the international aspects of user interfaces. Many American companies are approaching a situation where half of their sales are outside the United States, and companies in smaller countries often have a much larger proportion of their sales outside their own country. This means that software sales will increasingly depend on their international usability and not just their domestic usability. Seen from a user's perspective more than half of the world's software users will be using interfaces which were originally designed in a foreign country. Usability for this large market of users will depend upon increased awareness of the issues involved in designing user interfaces for international use. As the European community aims to establish the so-called Single Market by the end of 1992, international software will become even more important in that part of the world. And as if it wasn't hard enough to design user interfaces for use in Europe, there are a further set of problems connected with user interfaces for Asia. Both of these issues are examined in depth. This is the first publication of its kind to appear on the topic of international user interfaces, and presents both general guidelines and a number of detailed case studies on the many aspects entailed. The book will be of considerable interest to project managers, lecturers, students, developers of basic software and user interface designers.
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Nielsen, Jakob was born on October 5, 1957 in Copenhagen. Arrived in the United States, 1990, naturalized, 2001. Son of Gerhard and Helle (Hofner).
Master of Science in Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark, 1983. Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, T.U. of Denmark, 1988.
Research fellow Aarhus University, 1983-1984. Visiting scientist International Business Machines Corporation User Interface Institute, Yorktown Heights, New York, 1985. Adjunct assistant professor T.U. Denmark, Lyngby, 1986-1990.
Member research staff Bell Communications Research, Morristown, New Jersey, 1990-1994. Distinguished engineer Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, California, 1994-1998. Principal Nielsen Norman Group, Fremont, since 1998.
(A comprehensive, clearly written overview of hypertext, t...)
(A comprehensive, clearly written overview of hypertext, t...)
(Increasing technological sophistication in many countries...)
(In 2000, Jakob Nielsen, the world’s leading expert on Web...)
( In the years since Jakob Nielsen's classic collection o...)
( Based on his best-selling HyperText and HpyerMedia, Jak...)
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Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Computer Society editorial board Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Software since 1995), Association for Computing Machinery (special interest group on computer human interaction, papers co-chair international conference 1993, editorial board Networker since 1997).
Married Hannah Kain, February 18, 1984.