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| Wot No Jakob |
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Mr Nielsen has been talking, writing about and doing usability for almost 20 years now, but he has only become a guru since the rise of the World Wide Web where his Forrest Gump like, common sense statements have made him the undisputed Danish Prince of the usability sphere.
I believe that his heart is in the right place, and he did his best work before he became a pinup/hate figure (delete as appropriate) in the late nineties.
He practically created the modern web usability world and now seems to spend a lot of his time trying to be a live upto this image by becoming more and more corporate as the years go by.
Anyone for a $190 report, my latest book (co-written with <insert name here>), or a personalised user experience.
Tog and Normski have now joined his merry band, but I don't think they really put their hearts into it.
Over the past two years the quality of his alertbox columns have dropped, and I no longer find myself printing them off and leaving them on peoples desks. Although I have contributed some money as I used to study them religiously .
Jakob now seems to be destined to try and keep one step ahead of the usability pack. I wish him well, and hope that he doesn't stumble.