Usability Engineering By Jakob Nielsen Bookreview by RodneyFuller In The Historyof the Mind in America, Perry Miller (1965) summarizes the progression of the idea of"science" in early American history as that process that took a backward, immature collection of individuals who were divided intellectually and physically by their inability to communicate and coordinate, and how, through the combination of theoretical science and pragmatic applications of dedicated practitioners, the United States was transformed into a dynamic, entrepreneurial nation-state at a critical point i n the industrial revolution. This change described by writers at the time as either "majestic" or "magnificent" - can, according to Miller (1965), best be understood as "sublime" because much of the rapid change was caused by a few well-written books that were widely read and pragmatically revered. In ~abili~ Engineering (1993), Jakob Nielsen has written such a book for the information age. The problems of communicating and coordinating a diverse and divided nation at the dawn of the industrial age forced scientists and practitioners to consider the problems of public and private needs and to develop practical solutions for satisfying them. This process resulted in the creation of the modern "engineer," and in Nielsen (1993)
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Book Review: Usability Engineering by Jakob Nielsen
Fuller, Rodney
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Association for Computing Machinery – Oct 1, 1995
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