Book Description
About the author
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 59 United States patents, mainly on ways of making the Internet easier to use.
Other Books by Jakob Nielsen:
* Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, 2000: a quarter million copies in print; 14 languages
* Usability Engineering, 1994: textbook on the methods needed to make interfaces easier to use
* Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond, 1995: second edition of textbook on linked online information
* Usability Inspection Methods, 1994 (co-editor with Robert L. Mack): with chapters by each of the inventors of these methods
* International User Interfaces, 1996 (co-editor with with Elisa del Galdo)
* Advances in Human-Computer Interaction Vol. 5, 1995 (editor)
* Hypertext and Hypermedia, 1990: the first edition of classic textbook (no longer in print)
* Designing User Interfaces for International Use, 1990 (editor)
* Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency, 1989 (editor): still the best book on how to get a standard look-and-feel.
