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Jakob Nielsen Email & Phone Number
Usability Pioneer | UXtigers.com
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UX Tigers
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@nngroup.com
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Usability Pioneer | UXtigers.com
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Fremont, California, United States
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Jakob Nielsen is listed as Usability Pioneer | UXtigers.com at UX Tigers, based in Fremont, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at nngroup.com, phone signal with area code 415, 170, 781, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Jakob Nielsen.
Jakob Nielsen previously worked as Founder at Ux Tigers and Principal at Nielsen Norman Group. Jakob Nielsen holds Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction from Dtu - Technical University Of Denmark.
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About Jakob Nielsen
Usability pioneer (41 years experience 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, 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" (27,130 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
Listed skills include Usability, User Experience, Usability Engineering, Human Computer Interaction, and 25 others.
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Aug 1998 - Apr 2023
Mar 1994 - Jun 1998
Member Of Research Staff
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.
Jul 1990 - Mar 1994
Assistant Professor
Started university's first human-computer interaction (HCI) course. Research into hypertext user interfaces and usability engineering.
Jan 1986 - Jun 1990
Visiting Scientist, T.J. Watson Research Center
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.)
Jan 1985 - Dec 1985
Research Fellow
Taught university's first graduate seminar on measuring UX.Research into usability engineering methodologies.
Jul 1983 - Dec 1984
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Jakob Nielsen education
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Dtu - Technical University Of Denmark
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Jakob Nielsen works for UX Tigers.
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Jakob Nielsen is based in Fremont, California, United States while working with UX Tigers.
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Jakob Nielsen has worked for Ux Tigers, Nielsen Norman Group, Sun Microsystems, Bellcore, and Technical University Of Denmark.
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Jakob Nielsen holds Ph.D., Human-Computer Interaction from Dtu - Technical University Of Denmark.
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Jakob Nielsen is listed with skills including Usability, User Experience, Usability Engineering, Human Computer Interaction, User Research, Usability Testing, User Centered Design, and Heuristic Evaluation.
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