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Jakob Nielsen

Danish web usability consultant · Denmark · On the map · Academics · Born 1957 · age 69

Jakob Nielsen is a Danish web usability consultant, human-computer interaction researcher, and co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group. He was named the “guru of Web page usability” in 1998 by The New York Times and the “king of usability” by Internet Magazine.

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Denmark
Category
Academics
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Academic
Status
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Born 1957 · age 69

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