Developmental Editing: Existing Outline/Site Structure
This is the outline of the site structure as it existed in October, 2002. Square brackets ([]) enclose descriptors of untitled sections.
- about
- Copyright and Reprint Info
- Physical Reprints (Paper Publishing)
- Electronic and Online Reproduction
- Linking to useit.com
- Copying Style Sheets and Artwork
- Fair Use Quotes
- Translation Rights
- Why This Site Has Almost No Graphics
- Statistics for Referred Traffic
- alertbox
- The Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability
- Current Column
- Email Newsletter
- Previous Columns
- History of the Alertbox Column
- books
- Recommended Books
- [Books on Topics Other than Web Design]
- Web Design Books
- How to Buy
- homepageusability
- Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
- [Introductory Information]
- Study Guide
- Reviews and Articles About the Book
- Have Us Review Your Homepage
- Book Table of Contents
- Errata
- [Other information]
- hotlist
- Recommended Other Websites
- [Best Bets]
- Home Page Spotlights → /hotlist/spotlight.html
- Regular Columns
- Some Good Sites
- Other UI Hotlists
- Press Coverage of Jakob Nielsen
- [Articles of Interest]
- Additional Press Coverage
- jakob
- Jakob Nielsen has been called:
- the king of usability
- one of the top ten minds in small business
- number 6 of the Web’s 10 most influential people
- [Additional quotes...]
- [Photos]
- Additional high-resolution photos are available for download → /jakob/photos/
- [Professional Status]
- 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). → www.nngroup.com, www.jnd.org
- Until 1998 he was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer.
- [Dr. Nielsen as Innovator]
- 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. → /papers/heuristic/
- He holds 68 United States patents, mainly on ways of making the Internet easier to use.
- Jakob Nielsen’s Publication List (publications.html)
- Books
- Patents
- Papers in Refereed Journals and Prestigious Conferences
- Other Published Papers
- Panel Statements and Other Published Position Papers
- Writings on Educational Issues in User Interface Design
- Trip Reports → /papers/tripreports/
- Book Reviews, Etc.
- Tutorials
- Press Coverage
- Selected Technical Reports
- Interviews and press coverage → /hotlist/interviews.html
- Public presentations → /jakob/showtimes.html
- Column
- Alertbox column on Web usability, published on the Internet since 1995→ /alertbox/
- Books
- Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed, 2001 (113 guidelines for homepage design) → /homepageusability/
- Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, 2000: a quarter million copies in print; 15 languages → /jakob/webusability/
- Usability Engineering, 1994: textbook on the methods needed to make interfaces easier to use → /jakob/useengbook.html
- Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond, 1995: second edition of textbook on linked online information → /jakob/mmhtbook.html
- Usability Inspection Methods, 1994 (co-editor with Robert L. Mack): with chapters by each of the inventors of these methods → /jakob/inspectbook.html
- International User Interfaces, 1996 (co-editor with Elisa del Galdo) → /jakob/intluibook.html
- Advances in Human-Computer Interaction Vol. 5, 1995 (editor) → /jakob/ahci5book.html
- Hypertext and Hypermedia, 1990: the first edition of classic textbook (no longer in print) → /jakob/hthmbook.html
- Designing User Interfaces for International Use, 1990 (editor) → /jakob/intlusebook.html
- Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency, 1989 (editor): still the best book on how to get a standard look-and-feel (reprint edition published 2002) → /jakob/constbook.html
- Professional Background
- [Usability lead at Sun]
- [Earlier Affiliations and Education]
- [Morgan Kaufmann editorial board member]
- Professional journal editorial board memberships:
- [Recognition and Awards]
- [Contact Information]
- Address
- Office
- Website
- [Common Name Misspellings]
- papers
- Papers and Essays by Jakob Nielsen
- [Section Notes]
- Alertbox
- Papers
- Essays
- Website Makeovers
- Ten Biggest Thinkers of the 20th Century
- [List Organization]
- [The Thinkers]
- [List Bias]
- search
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