Prioritizing Web Usability

jakob nielsen hoa loranger

Describes Web site usability through critiques of real-world sites, covering such factors as legibility, navigability, searchability, and design.

Genres designwebnonfictionusabilitywebsite designbusinesstechnologyprogramminginternetcomputer science

275 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,2006

This edition

Format: 275 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2006 by New Riders Pub
ISBN: 9780321350312
ASIN: 0321350316
Language: English

About the author

Jakob Nielsen is a leading web usability consultant. He holds a Ph.D. in human-computer interaction from the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen. He is also the principal of the Nielsen Norman Group which he co-founded with Dr. Donald A. Norman (former VP of research at Apple Computer). Before starting NNG in 1998 he was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer.

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 Web easier to use.

Nielsen has also given his five quality components of Usability Goals, which are: Learnability, Efficiency, Memorability, Errors (as in low error rate), Satisfaction.