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Jakob Nielsen
Jakob Nielsen is a Danish web usability consultant, human–computer interaction researcher, and co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group. He was named the “guru of Web page usability” in 1998 by The New York Times and the “king of usability” by Internet Magazine.
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business · American computer scientist (born 1957) · computer scientist · web developer · businessperson · university teacher · author · also Jakob Nielsen, Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant), Nielsen
Born 5 October 1957 · Q82556
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his work is pleasant and engaging to read, and yet not so complicated that it would be above the heads of users.
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2026· 2 entries
“his work is pleasant and engaging to read, and yet not so complicated that it would be above the heads of users.”
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2023· 1 entry
Where he currently publishes articles on the topics of usability, with a heavy focus on the intersection of digital usability and artificial intelligence, and publishes video content about usability
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2021· 1 entry
Published “2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure” in European Heart Journal — cited 12,211 times.
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2017· 2 entries
Published “glmmTMB Balances Speed and Flexibility Among Packages for Zero-inflated Generalized Linear Mixed Modeling” in The R Journal — cited 11,577 times.
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Published “GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral” in Physical Review Letters — cited 8,280 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “Tissue-based map of the human proteome” in Science — cited 14,171 times.
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2013· 1 entry
SIGCHI awarded him the Lifetime Practice Award
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,801 times.
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2011· 1 entry
Published “SignalP 4.0: discriminating signal peptides from transmembrane regions” in Nature Methods — cited 7,953 times.
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2010· 2 entries
Nielsen was listed by Bloomberg Businessweek among 28 "World's Most Influential Designers"
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Published “A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing” in Nature — cited 9,954 times.
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2008· 1 entry
Questioning if the Nielsen heuristics were an oversimplification
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded awards and decorations of the United States military (2006).
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1998· 2 entries
With fellow usability expert Donald Norman
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By The New York Times and the “king of usability” by Internet Magazine
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1996· 1 entry
Nielsen published a fortnightly column about website usability called Alertbox on his now-archived personal website useit
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1994· 1 entry
And the final set still in use today was published in 2005:
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1990· 1 entry
When the Nielsen heuristic evaluation guidelines were created, user interface was less complicated than it is in present-day
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1957· 1 entry
Born 1957-10-05.
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