About the Author

Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D. is a User Advocate specializing in web usability and a principal of Nielsen Norman Group (www.nngroup.com), which he co-founded with Dr. Donald A. Norman, former Vice President of Apple Research. Until 1998, Dr. Nielsen was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer and led that company’s web usability efforts, starting with the original design of SunWeb in early 1994. His previous affiliations include the IBM User Interface Institute, Bell Communications Research, and the Technical University of Denmark. Nielsen is the author and editor of 10 other books, including the new Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed. He has also written more than 80 research papers on usability engineering, user interface ...

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