Friday, January 22, 2010

Assignment No.3: Who is Jakob Nielsen?

Jakob Nielsen is a renowned web usability consultant.

Nielsen has worked at suck companies as Bell, IBM, and Sun Microsystems. A Ph.D graduate of Denmark's Technical University, Nielsen has spent most of his working life helping to define and evolve the idea of web usability. Nielsen hold's 79 United States patents concerns usability and has developed five components of usability goals:

Learnability, Efficiency, Memorability, Errors, Satisfaction.

Additionally, Nielson founded the "discount usability movement" which focuses on the development of fast and cheap user interface improvements. A published web design author who continues to be highly regarded in his field, Nielsen most recently co-founded the consulting company Nielsen Norman Group.

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