Summary: Jakob Nielsen has worked in user experience since 1983. Much has changed, including his own journey from academia to practice, but the mission remains the same: to make computers suitable and pleasant for humans. I started working in user experience in 1983 41 years ago at the time of this writing. People often ask me why and how I got into usability. For the full story, we have to go back much further. I Was a Space Age Baby All the world’s newspapers carried the same headline the da
About forty five years ago, a team of developers at Motorola had a great idea for a new microprocessor: one that would be simple, easy to use, and less expensive to build. Motorola wasn’t interested…