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Agile User Experience Projects (November 4)
Agile projects aren't yet fully user-driven, but new research shows that developers are actually more bullish on key user experience issues than UX people themselves.

Distributing Content Through Social Networks (October 12)
Time Scales in User Experience (October 5)
Fresh vs. Familiar (September 21)

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Reports

Agile usability New since November 3
Application design showcase: 10 best App UIs
Intranet usability
> Intranet design annual
> Enterprise 2.0
> Intranet portals
> Design guidelines for intranets, vols. 1-10
> Intranet IA
> Sector-specific: financial, government, tech
Email newsletters
E-commerce and B2B sites
Return on investment for usability (ROI)
Age groups: Children, Teens, Seniors
Donations to non-profits
Corporate sites: "About Us", PR, IR
Social media postings and RSS feeds New since October 12
Mobile Usability

More reports and usability guidelines

Film

Paper prototyping: how-to video (32 minute DVD)

Books

Prioritizing Web Usability
Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed

Full list of books by Jakob Nielsen
Recommended books by other authors

Consulting Services

Nielsen Norman Group offers usability reviews, training, user testing, and a conference

About Jakob Nielsen

Biography and photos
Papers and essays

About This Site

Why this site has almost no graphics
Copyright and reprint rules

News

Usability Week 2009 Conference

> San Francisco, CA: December 7-11

Full-day seminars, including
> IA1 (structure) & IA2 (navigation)
> Apps design 1 (GUI) and Apps design 2 (workflow)
> Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability
> Integrating Social Features on Mainstream Websites
> Emerging Patterns for Web Design New since November 1
> The Human Mind: How Your Users Think


TIME Magazine The Paperless Chase (about online financial statements)

TIME Magazine Why We Look at Some Web Ads and Not Others

Web Designer Depot Interview with Web Usability Guru, Jakob Nielsen

USA Today Mobile web a throwback to the '90s

Financial Times If granny would disapprove, don’t put it on the net

Boston Globe I screen, you screen, we all screen (about reading from screens)

BusinessWeek Jakob Nielsen Critiques Twitter

Intranet Journal Social Networking Transforms the Best Intranets

Forbes Touch Screens Everywhere

Wall Street Journal The Latest Buzz On... Interface Design

PC Pro Recipe for a billion-dollar website

BBC Web users 'getting more selfish'

Gulf News Digital mobility helps people break the workplace's shackles

CBS CBS 5 Investigates Complaints About Webloyalty

ZDNet Asia Bright SEO career prospects could dim

Financial Times In-house internet aims to recapture staff attention

StoneTemple Eric Enge Interviews Usability Guru, Jakob Nielsen

Practical Ecommerce Bloglist

The Guardian The web design guru that web designers love to hate

Search Engine Land Jakob Nielsen On Search Usability

Wall Street Journal Marketers Seek a Banner-Blindness Cure

BusinessWeek Google Is Making You Dumber

BBC Web 2.0 'neglecting good design'

E-consultancy Interview with Jakob Nielsen

CIO 5 Things I've Learned

ZDNet Usability makes business sense

New York Times How to Make Your Web Site Sing for You

SitePoint Interview with Jakob Nielsen

Wall Street Journal For Web-Design Expert, Ease of Use And Clarity Are Essential for Firms

Washington Post If This Column Were a Web Site, This Would Be Its Home Page

The Guardian Two words is a minute description of a human need

USA Today Survey offers a 'sneak peek' into Net surfers' brains

BusinessWeek The Unwieldy Web

CNN Tech will cause a real estate crash

WIRED What Websites Do to Turn On Teens

BBC A decade of good website design

Sydney Morning Herald The key to email: a two-second grab

Seattle Times Timely, focused online newsletter a valuable relationship builder

IT conversations Jakob Nielsen podcast

Builder.au Developer Spotlight: Jakob Nielsen

Digital Web Magazine An interview with Dr. Jakob Nielsen, usability expert

PixelSurgeon Jakob Nielsen Interview

WebReference Jakob Nielsen Interview

DevSource Designing Your Applications for Usability

CIO A Discussion with Jakob Nielsen and Vincent Flanders

SitePoint Interview with Jakob Nielsen

Full list of interviews

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