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
Today marks the day when Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite, was launched. Looking into the space programs from all over the world, anyone can attest that we have achieved wonders no matter which country pioneered the mission.