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About Jakob Nielsen

Jakob Nielsen is a usability expert who developed the Top Ten Website Design Mistakes in the 90's. His Alert Box is an email newsletter that keeps you up to date with the latest website usability news.

Accessibility101 recommends you sign up for the news letter and keep up to date with this news. After all, accessibility and usability are undeniably very closely linked.

Jakob Nielsen has been hailed:

• "the king of usability" (Internet Magazine)
• "the guru of Web page usability" (The New York Times)
• "the next best thing to a true time machine" (USA Today)
• "the smartest person on the Web" (ZDNet AnchorDesk)
• "the world's leading expert on Web usability" (U.S. News & World Report)
• one of the top ten minds in small business (FORTUNE Small Business)
• "the world's leading expert on user-friendly design" (Stuttgarter Zeitung, Germany)
• "knows more about what makes Web sites work than anyone else on the planet" (Chicago Tribune, March 6, 2000)
• "one of the world's foremost experts in Web usability" (Business Week)
• "the Web's usability czar" (WebReference.com)
• "the reigning guru of Web usability" (FORTUNE)
• "eminent Web usability guru" (CNN)
• "perhaps the best-known design and usability guru on the Internet" (Financial Times)
• "the usability Pope" (Wirtschaftswoche Magazine, Germany)
• "new-media pioneer" (Newsweek)

Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., is a User Advocate and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group which he co-founded with Dr. Donald A. Norman (former VP of research at Apple Computer). Until 1998 he was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer.

Dr. Nielsen founded the "discount usability engineering" movement for fast and cheap improvements of user interfaces and has invented several usability methods, including heuristic evaluation. He holds 79 United States patents, mainly on ways of making the Internet easier to use.

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