Usability Engineering
by Jakob Nielsen · first published 1993
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eh. For who want's to get deeper/broader view, there's a "bible" on UX.. called "Usability engineering" by Jakob Nielsen ~1993 [0]. IMO The first 2 (two) chapters are, like, mandatory - the what and the why. The rest, is mostly details - how. (but it has even how to organise random-street-user-tests and…
on “Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer” ↗It's been years since I've actively worked on my UI education, but the ones I liked were: * The Design of Everyday Things * The Inmates are Running the Asylum * Any of Edward Tufte's books * Usability Engineering
on “Ask HN: Uncommon but attainable programmer skillsets valued by employers?” ↗…firstly doing the "discount" version of a thing to learn the thing is the right approach. Specifically to product usability, as much as Jakob Nielsen is an iconoclast in certain circles, his Discount Usability Engineering principles are timeless: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/web-discount-usability/
on “Do It in Jeans First” ↗Nielsen's "Usability Engineering" was my FIRST EVER Amazon.com purchase in June 1998.
on “Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen” ↗…computer companies than hardware manufacturing, and user interfaces are a major way to differentiate products in a market dominated by an otherwise homogenizing trend towards open systems." - Jakob Nielson, Usability Engineering - 1993. I think he partly got the prediction right, that usability would be big differentiator. Apple and MS over the following years had big efforts focused on consistency in their interfaces and we…
on “The Decline of Usability” ↗