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41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective
41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective.
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
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