[Web4lib] Nielsen's Top 10 - 2005 version

[Lars Aronsson]

Drew, Bill wrote:

> Actually I always wondered who named him the accessibility and 
> usability god.  There are many better sources in LibraryLand 
> with much more practical experience and common sense.

Who is this AUTHOR, where did he come from, and why?  Of course, 
as a librarian, you already looked him up in your catalog and 
right-clicked on his name to get the biography from Wikipedia, 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Nielsen_%28usability_consultant%29

In the mid 1990s Jakob Nielsen's books were the first to address 
usability on the web.  There were already books on designing good 
user interfaces for text and window systems (Unix/X, Mac or 
Microsoft), but none for the web.

You don't hear his name half as often now as in 1999.  Web 
usability is perhaps not so much of an issue anymore, since the 
most fundamental mistakes are less and less common.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se