Papers and Essays by Jakob Nielsen

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See also Jakob Nielsen's complete publication list.

Alertbox

Bi-weekly Alertbox column about Web usability.

Papers

I apologize for the fact that these papers were written for print publication. Thus, they are often quite long and not well suited for online reading.

Heuristic Evaluation

Essays

Even though most of these essays were also written for print, they are short and reasonably easy to read online.

Website Makeovers

Intermittent contributor to feature in Business Week

Users First!

My usability column on ZDNet. See the full list of Users First! columns, including articles about really cheap user tests, redesign and learning usability.