This week we looked into the history of typography with Guttenberg and Moveable type. I found this week quite interesting to find out how long typography has been so important within society.

Jakob Nielsen

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Jakob Nielsen is the principal of the company Nielsen Norman Group who specialize in User Experience.

Nielsen was born on the 5th October 1957 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a specialist in usability and he even holds more than a thousand US patents on usability for technology.

Jakob Nielsen made a list of rules for usability that has been used as a framework by many.

  1. Visibility of system status
  2. Match between system and the real world
  3. User control and freedom
  4. Consistency and standards
  5. Error prevention
  6. Recognition rather than recall
  7. Flexibility and efficiency of use
  8. Aesthetic and minimalist design
  9. Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors
  10. Help and documentation