Jakob Nielsen
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» 2006 «
Nielsen, Jakob (2006). Progressive Disclosure. Retrieved 3 March 2008 from Useit.com: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/progressive-disclosure.html
» Progressive Disclosure: [/encyclopedia/progressive_disclosure.html]
» 2002 «
Nielsen, Jakob and Tahir, Marie (2002): Homepage usability : 50 websites deconstructed. New Riders Publishing
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Gilutz, Shuli and Nielsen, Jakob (2002). Usability of Websites for Children: 70 design guidelines. Retrieved [Date unavailable] from Nielsen Norman Group: http://www.nngroup.com/reports/kids/
» 1999 «
Nielsen, Jakob (1999): Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity. New Riders Publishing View info on Amazon.com or .co.uk
Nielsen, Jakob (1999): Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity. New Riders Publishing View info on Amazon.com or .co.uk
» 1996 «
Gentner, Donald R. and Nielsen, Jakob (1996): The Anti-Mac Interface. In Communications of the ACM, 8 pp. 70-82
» Mental models: [/encyclopedia/mental_models.html]
» Vigilance: [/encyclopedia/vigilance.html]
Tauber, Michael J., Bellotti, Victoria, Jeffries, Robin, Mackinlay, Jock D. and Nielsen, Jakob (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 96 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 14-18, 1996, Vancouver, Canada.
Galdo, Elisa del and Nielsen, Jakob (eds.) (1996): International User Interfaces. New York, John Wiley and Sons View info on Amazon.com or .co.uk
Nielsen, Jakob and Faber, Jan Maurits (1996): Improving System Usability Through Parallel Design. In IEEE Computer, 29 (2) pp. 29-35
» 1995 «
Katz, Irvin R., Mack, Robert L., Marks, Linn, Rosson, Mary Beth and Nielsen, Jakob (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 95 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference May 7-11, 1995, Denver, Colorado.
Nielsen, Jakob (1995): Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond. Academic Press View info on Amazon.com or .co.uk
Nielsen, Jakob (1995): The Future of Hypertext. In Interactions, 2 (2) pp. 66-78
Nielsen, Jakob (1995): The electronic business card: an experiment in half-dead hypertext. In New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 1 pp. 155-168
» 1994 «
Nielsen, Jakob and Mack, Robert L. (eds.) (1994): Usability Inspection Methods. New York, John Wiley and Sons View info on Amazon.com or .co.uk
Nielsen, Jakob (1994): Heuristic evaluation. In: Nielsen, Jakob and Mack, Robert L. "Usability Inspection Methods". John Wiley and Sons
» Heuristics and heuristic evaluation: [/encyclopedia/heuristics_and_heuristic_evaluation.html]
Nielsen, Jakob (1994): Why GUI Panic is Good Panic. In Interactions, 1 (2) pp. 55-58
Nielsen, Jakob (1994): As They May Work. In Interactions, 1 (4) pp. 19-24
Nielsen, Jakob (1994): Usability Laboratories. In Behaviour and Information Technology, 13 (1) pp. 3-8
Nielsen, Jakob (1994): Estimating the Number of Subjects Needed for a Thinking Aloud Test. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 41 (3) pp. 385-397
Nielsen, Jakob (1994): "Defying Gravity: The Making of Newton," by Doug Menuez and Markos Kounalakis. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 26 (1) p. 73
Nielsen, Jakob (1994): UPA93. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 26 (2) pp. 29-33
Hix, Deborah, Hartson, H. Rex and Nielsen, Jakob (1994): A Taxonomy for Developing High Impact Formative Usability Evaluation Methods. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 26 (4) pp. 20-22
» 1993 «
Nielsen, Jakob (1993): Usability Engineering. Boston, MA, Academic Press View info on Amazon.com or .co.uk
Nielsen, Jakob and Landauer, Thomas K. (1993): A Mathematical Model of the Finding of Usability Problems. In: Ashlund, Stacey, Mullet, Kevin, Henderson, Austin, Hollnagel, Erik and White, Ted (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 93 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 24-29, 1993, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. pp. 206-213. Available online
Nielsen, Jakob and Phillips, Victoria L. (1993): Estimating the Relative Usability of Two Interfaces: Heuristic, Formal, and Empirical Methods Compared. In: Ashlund, Stacey, Mullet, Kevin, Henderson, Austin, Hollnagel, Erik and White, Ted (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 93 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 24-29, 1993, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. pp. 214-221. Available online
Spool, Jared M., Allen, C. Dennis, Ballman, Don, Begg, Vivienne, Miller-Jacobs, Harold H., Muller, Michael J. and Nielsen, Jakob (1993): User Involvement in the Design Process: Why, When and How?. In: Ashlund, Stacey, Mullet, Kevin, Henderson, Austin, Hollnagel, Erik and White, Ted (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 93 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 24-29, 1993, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. pp. 251-254. Available online
Nielsen, Jakob and Schaefer, Lynn (1993): Sound Effects as an Interface Element for Older Users. In Behaviour and Information Technology, 12 (4) pp. 208-215
Mack, Robert L. and Nielsen, Jakob (1993): Usability Inspection Methods: Report on a Workshop Held at CHI'92, Monterey, CA, May 3-4, 1992. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 25 (1) pp. 28-33
Nielsen, Jakob (1993): Tog on Interface. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 25 (2) pp. 54-55
Nielsen, Jakob (1993): Iterative User-Interface Design. In IEEE Computer, 26 (11) pp. 32-41
» 1992 «
Mulligan, Robert M., Dieli, Mary, Nielsen, Jakob, Poltrock, Steven, Rosenberg, Dan and Rudman, Susan Ehrlich (1992): Designing Usable Systems Under Real-World Constraints: A Practitioners Forum. In: Bauersfeld, Penny, Bennett, John and Lynch, Gene (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 92 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference June 3-7, 1992, Monterey, California. pp. 149-152. Available online
Nielsen, Jakob (1992): Finding Usability Problems Through Heuristic Evaluation. In: Bauersfeld, Penny, Bennett, John and Lynch, Gene (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 92 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference June 3-7, 1992, Monterey, California. pp. 373-380. Available online
Nielsen, Jakob, Bush, Rita M., Dayton, Tom, Mond, Nancy E., Muller, Michael J. and Root, Robert W. (1992): Teaching Experienced Developers to Design Graphical User Interfaces. In: Bauersfeld, Penny, Bennett, John and Lynch, Gene (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 92 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference June 3-7, 1992, Monterey, California. pp. 557-564. Available online
Brothers, L., Hollan, James D., Nielsen, Jakob, Stornetta, Scott, Abney, Steve, Furnas, George W. and Littman, Michael (1992): Supporting Informal Communication via Ephemeral Interest Groups. In: Mantel, Marilyn and Baecker, Ronald M. (eds.) Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work November 01 - 04, 1992, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. pp. 84-90. Available online
Dumais, Susan and Nielsen, Jakob (1992): Automating the Assignment of Submitted Manuscripts to Reviewers. In: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval 1992. pp. 233-244. Available online
Nielsen, Jakob (1992): The Usability Engineering Life Cycle. In IEEE Computer, 25 (3) pp. 12-22
» 1991 «
Thovtrup, Henrik and Nielsen, Jakob (1991): Assessing the Usability of a User Interface Standard. In: Robertson, Scott P., Olson, Gary M. and Olson, Judith S. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 91 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 28 - June 5, 1991, New Orleans, Louisiana. pp. 335-341. Available online
Nielsen, Jakob, Hardman, Lynda, Nicol, Anne and Yankelovich, Nicole (1991): The Nielsen Ratings: Hypertext Reviews. In: Walker, Jan (ed.) Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 91 Conference December 15-18, 1991, San Antonio, Texas. pp. 359-360. Available online
Nielsen, Jakob, Frehr, Ida and Nymand, Hans Olav (1991): The Learnability of HyperCard as an Object-Oriented Programming System. In Behaviour and Information Technology, 10 (2) pp. 111-120
Nielsen, Jakob (1991): Usability Metrics and Methodologies British Computer Society, London, U.K., 21 May 1990. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 23 (2) pp. 37-39
» 1990 «
Nielsen, Jakob and Molich, Rolf (1990): Heuristic evaluation of user interfaces. In: Carrasco, Jane and Whiteside, John (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 90 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference 1990, Seattle, Washington,USA. pp. 249-256.
Nielsen, Jakob (1990): Hypertext and Hypermedia. San Diego, CA, Academic Press
Perlman, Gary, Egan, Dennis E., Ehrlich, Kate, Marchionini, Gary, Nielsen, Jakob and Shneiderman, Ben (1990): Evaluating Hypermedia Systems. In: Carrasco, Jane and Whiteside, John (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 90 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference 1990, Seattle, Washington,USA. pp. 387-390. Available online
Nielsen, Jakob, Galdo, Elisa M. del, Sprung, Robert C. and Sukaviriya, Piyawadee (1990): Designing for International Use. In: Carrasco, Jane and Whiteside, John (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 90 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference 1990, Seattle, Washington,USA. pp. 291-294.
Nielsen, Jakob (1990): Miniatures versus Icons as a Visual Cache for Videotex Browsing. In Behaviour and Information Technology, 9 (6) pp. 441-449
Nielsen, Jakob (1990): Paper versus Computer Implementations as Mockup Scenarios for Heuristic Evaluation. In: Diaper, Dan, Gilmore, David J., Cockton, Gilbert and Shackel, Brian (eds.) INTERACT 90 - 3rd IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction August 27-31, 1990, Cambridge, UK. pp. 315-320.
Nielsen, Jakob, Dray, Susan M., Foley, James D., Walsh, Paul and Wright, Peter C. (1990): Usability Engineering on a Budget. In: Diaper, Dan, Gilmore, David J., Cockton, Gilbert and Shackel, Brian (eds.) INTERACT 90 - 3rd IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction August 27-31, 1990, Cambridge, UK. pp. 1067-1070.
Nielsen, Jakob (1990): A Meta-model for Interacting with Computers. In Interacting with Computers, 2 (2) pp. 147-160
Nielsen, Jakob (1990): "Ecodisc," by BBC Interactive Television Unit. In Hypermedia, 2 (2) pp. 176-182
Nielsen, Jakob (1990): International User Interfaces: An Exercise. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 21 (4) pp. 50-51
Nielsen, Jakob (1990): Hypertext'89. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 21 (4) pp. 52-61
Nielsen, Jakob (1990): CHI'90: Seattle, Washington, April 1-5, 1990. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 22 (2) pp. 20-25
Nielsen, Jakob (ed.) (1990): Designing User Interfaces for International Use. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Elsevier Science Publishers View info on Amazon.com or .co.uk
» 1989 «
Nielsen, Jakob (1989): The Matters that Really Matter for Hypertext Usability. In: Halasz, Frank and Meyrowitz, Norman (eds.) Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 89 Conference November 5-8, 1989, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. pp. 239-248.
Nielsen, Jakob (1989): What Do Users Really Want?. In International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 1 (2) pp. 137-147
Nielsen, Jakob (1989): Hypertext Bibliography. In Hypermedia, 1 (1) pp. 74-91
Anderson, Michael H., Nielsen, Jakob and Rasmussen, Henrik (1989): A Similarity-Based Hypertext Browser for Reading the Unix Network News. In Hypermedia, 1 (3) pp. 255-265
Nielsen, Jakob (1989): Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 20 (3) pp. 63-65
Nielsen, Jakob (1989): HCI'88 British Computer Society Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Manchester, United Kingdom, 5-9 September 1988. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 20 (3) pp. 90-93
Nielsen, Jakob and Molich, Rolf (1989): Teaching User Interface Design Based on Usability Engineering. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 21 (1) pp. 45-48
Nielsen, Jakob (1989): HyperHyper: Developments Across the Field of Hypermedia -- A Mini Trip Report: BCS Workshop, London, UK, 23 February 1989. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 21 (1) pp. 65-67
Nielsen, Jakob (1989): International Conference on Fifth Generation Computer Systems 1988, Tokyo, Japan, 28 November - 2 December 1988. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 21 (1) pp. 68-71
Nielsen, Jakob (1989): CHI'89. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 21 (2) pp. 28-40
Nielsen, Jakob (1989): Hypertext II. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 21 (2) pp. 41-47
Nielsen, Jakob (ed.) (1989): Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency. New York, Academic Press View info on Amazon.com or .co.uk
Nielsen, Jakob (1989): Usability Engineering at a Discount. In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 1989. pp. 394-401.
» 1988 «
Nielsen, Jakob (1988): The HCI Situation in Europe. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 19 (3) pp. 48-50
Nielsen, Jakob (1988): Hypertext'87, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 13-15 November 1987. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 19 (4) pp. 27-35
Nielsen, Jakob (1988): INTERACT'87, Stuttgart, West Germany, 1-4 September 1987. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 19 (4) pp. 36-42
Nielsen, Jakob (1988): CHI'88, Washington, D.D., 15-19 May 1988. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 20 (2) pp. 58-66
» 1987 «
Nielsen, Jakob (1987): Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: Trip Report from the Conference in Austin, December 3-5, 1986. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 19 (1) pp. 54-61
Nielsen, Jakob (1987): Classification of Dialog Techniques: A CHI+GI'87 Workshop, Toronto, April 6, 1987. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 19 (2) pp. 30-35
Nielsen, Jakob (1987): CHI+GI'87, Toronto, April 5-9, 1987. In ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, 19 (2) pp. 58-66
Nielsen, Jakob (1987): A User Interface Case Study of the Macintosh. In: Salvendy, Gavriel (ed.) HCI International 1987 - Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - Volume 2 August 10-14, 1987, Honolulu, Hawaii. pp. 241-248.
» 1986 «
Nielsen, Jakob (1986): "Fundamentals of Human-Computer Interaction," edited by Andrew Monk. In Behaviour and Information Technology, 5 (3) pp. 291-298
Nielsen, Jakob (1986): A Virtual Protocol Model for Computer-Human Interaction. In International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 24 (3) pp. 301-312
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Publication statistics
Publication period:1986-2006
Publication count:76
Number of co-authors:61
Productive colleagues
Jakob Nielsen's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:
Ben Shneiderman:181Mary Beth Rosson:111
Gary Marchionini:61
Collaboration count
Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:
Robert L. Mack:3Rolf Molich:2
Michael J. Muller:2
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