Jakob Nielsen

Founder of UX Tigers; Bestselling Author; Usability Pioneer & Expert in User Experience

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Jakob Nielsen Biography

Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., is a usability pioneer with 41 years’ experience in UX and the Founder of UX Tigers. He founded the discount usability movement for fast and cheap iterative design, including heuristic evaluation and the 10 usability heuristics. He formulated the eponymous Jakob’s Law of the Internet User Experience. He was named “the king of usability” by Internet Magazine, “the guru of Web page usability” by The New York Times, and “the next best thing to a true time machine” by USA Today.

Previously, Dr. Nielsen was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer and a Member of Research Staff at Bell Communications Research, the branch of Bell Labs owned by the Regional Bell Operating Companies. He is the author of 8 books, including the best-selling “Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity” (published in 22 languages), the foundational “Usability Engineering” (27,760 citations in Google Scholar), and the pioneering “Hypertext and Hypermedia” (published two years before the Web launched).

Dr. Nielsen holds 79 United States patents, mainly on making the Internet easier to use. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Human–Computer Interaction Practice from ACM SIGCHI and was named a “Titan of Human Factors” by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 06/18/2024.

Jakob Nielsen Videos

  • UX 2050 (Jakob Nielsen keynote)
    The user experience field will see dramatic changes over the next 3 decades, driven by trends in demographics and the world economy. We will end up...
  • Mobile Usability Futures | Jakob Nielsen | Talks at Google

Jakob Nielsen Books

  • Designing Web Usability
    Designing Web Usability

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