Jakob Nielsen

Co-Founder

Fremont, California, United States39 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Pioneered the discount usability movement.
Authored 8 influential books on usability.
Holds 79 US patents in usability engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Usability Expert with a strong focus on Human-Computer Interaction in the SaaS industry.

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Heuristic EvaluationUsability TestingUser-centered DesignUser ExperienceUsabilityUsability EngineeringHuman-computer InteractionEye TrackingRapid PrototypingExperience DesignUser ResearchMobile DevicesMobile ApplicationsCard SortingDigital Strategy

About

Usability pioneer (43 years in UX). Founder of the discount usability movement for fast and cheap iterative design, including heuristic evaluation and the 10 usability heuristics. Formulated the eponymous Jakob’s Law of the Internet User Experience. Career highlights: Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer (top 0.1% of company talent), Member of Research Staff at Bell Communications Research (the branch of Bell Labs owned by the Regional Bell Operating Companies). 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. Dr. Nielsen is the author of 8 books, including "Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity", "Usability Engineering" (29,920 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 ways of 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. Full bio: https://www.uxtigers.com/about/people

Experience

39 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Ux tigers

Founder

May 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Fremont, CA · Remote

Writing a website (with an email newsletter) to bring UX knowledge to the worldwide community, being plainspoken, hard-hitting, and not bowing to orthodoxy. Fearless Usability!

Nielsen norman group

Principal

Aug 1998 – Apr 2023 · 24 yrs 8 mos · Silicon Valley · Remote

Co-founded a UX consultancy.

Sun microsystems

Distinguished Engineer

Mar 1994 – Jun 1998 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Mountain View, CA

Company's usability guru.
The Distinguished Engineers were the company’s top 0.1% technical talents. In the DE meetings, one could almost see IQ points drip down the wall from condensation of the concentrated brain power in the room. The other members were some of the world’s top super-engineers, and Tog and I were the two user interface guys in the group.

Bellcore

Member of Research Staff

Jul 1990 – Mar 1994 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Morristown, NJ

Principal investigator for usability engineering research, Applied Research division.
(Bellcore, or Bell Communications Research, was the arm of Bell Labs that was split off at divestiture to be owned by the Regional Bell Operating Companies. It was one of the world's last Grand Style corporate research labs. It was one of the world's top 3 HCI research labs in the 1990s.)

Technical university of denmark

Assistant Professor

Jan 1986 – Jun 1990 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Copenhagen Area, Denmark

Started university's first human-computer interaction (HCI) course. Research into hypertext user interfaces and usability engineering.

Ibm

Visiting Scientist, T.J. Watson Research Center

Jan 1985 – Dec 1985 · 11 mos · Yorktown Heights, NY

Research on usability of integrated software.
(The Watson Center is IBM's research headquarters. The User Interface Institute where I worked was one of the world's top 3 HCI research labs in the 1980s.)