Jakob Nielsen's Publication List
Books
- Nielsen, J., and Budiu, R. (2012). Mobile Usability, New Riders Press, ISBN 0-321-88448-5.
- Nielsen, J., and Pernice, K. (2010). Eyetracking Web Usability, New Riders Press, ISBN 0-321-49836-4.
- Nielsen, J., and Loranger, H. (2006). Prioritizing Web Usability, New Riders Press, ISBN 0-321-35031-6.
- Nielsen, J., and Tahir, M. (2001). Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed. New Riders Publishing, Indianapolis, ISBN 0-73571-102-X.
- Nielsen, J., Molich, R., Snyder, C., and Farrell, S. (2001). E-Commerce User Experience. Nielsen Norman Group, Fremont, CA, ISBN 0-9706072-0-2.
- Nielsen, J. (1999). Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity. New Riders Publishing, Indianapolis, ISBN 1-56205-810-X. Translated into 21 additional languages.
- del Galdo, E., and Nielsen, J. (Eds.) (1996). International User Interfaces. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, ISBN 0-471-14965-9.
- Nielsen, J. (Ed.) (1995). Advances in HCI Vol. 5. Ablex, Norwood, NJ, ISBN 1-56750-199-0 (hardcover), 1-56750-196-6 (softcover).
- Nielsen, J. (1995). Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond. AP Professional, Boston. ISBN 0-12-518408-5. German edition: Multimedia, Hypertext und Internet: Grundlagen und Praxis des elektronischen Publizierens, Vieweg Verlag, ISBN 3-528-05525-1. Excerpts: Chapter 3: The History of Hypertext; The Future of Hypertext.
- Nielsen, J., and Mack, R. L. (Eds.) (1994). Usability Inspection Methods. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, ISBN 0-471-01877-5.
- Nielsen, J. (1993). Usability Engineering. Academic Press, Boston, ISBN 0-12-518405-0 (hardcover), 0-12-518406-9 (softcover). Japanese translation ISBN 4-8101-9009-9.
- Nielsen, J. (1990). Hypertext and Hypermedia. Academic Press, Boston, ISBN 0-12-518410-7 (hardcover), 0-12-518411-5 (paperback). Japanese translation ISBN 4-8337-8583-8.
- Nielsen, J. (Ed.) (1990). Designing User Interfaces for International Use. Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, ISBN 0-444-88428-9.
- Nielsen, J. (Ed.) (1989). Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency. Academic Press, Boston, ISBN 0-12-518400-X. Reissued 2002 by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, ISBN 0-12-518400-X.
(All of these patents were invented from 1995 to 1997 when I worked at Sun Microsystems, so Oracle now owns the rights to the inventions, even for those patents that issued years later due to the slowness of the U.S. Patent Office.) - Nielsen, J.: Adaptive meta-tagging of websites, U.S. Patent 7,636,732 (2009)
- Nielsen, J.: Latency-reducing bandwidth-prioritization for network servers and clients, U.S. Patent 6,968,379 (2005)
- Nielsen, J.: Internet-activated callback service, U.S. Patent 6,944,278 (2005)
- Nielsen, J.: Scroll bars with user feedback, U.S. Patent 6,882,354 (2005)
- Nielsen, J.: Tooltips on webpages, U.S. Patent 6,819,336 (2004)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and system for prioritized downloading of embedded web objects, U.S. Patent 6,789,075 (2004)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and system for escrowed backup of hotelled world wide web sites, U.S. Patent 6,778,668 (2004)
- Nielsen, J., Tognazzini, B., and Glass, R.: Eyetrack-driven illumination and information display, U.S. Patent 6,734,845 (2004)
- Nielsen, J.: Adaptive font sizes for network browsing, U.S. Patent 6,665,842 (2003)
- Nielsen, J.: Retrieving information from a broadcast signal, U.S. Patent 6,658,662 (2003)
- Tognazzini, B., Nielsen, J., and Glass, B.: Tilt-scrolling on the SunPad, U.S. Patent 6,624,824 (2003) [note that what we called a SunPad because we worked at Sun is what people today call a tablet]
- Tognazzini, B., and Nielsen, J.: Opaque screen visualizer, U.S. Patent 6,532,021 (2003)
- Nielsen, J.: System for managing and automatically deleting network address identified and stored during a network communication session when the network address is visited, U.S. Patent 6,510,461 (2003)
- Tognazzini, B., Nielsen, J., and Glass, R.: Transparent SunPad for home shopping, U.S. Patent 6,480,204 (2002) [note that what we called a SunPad because we worked at Sun is what people today call a tablet]
- Nielsen, J.: Method and apparatus for identifying and discarding junk electronic mail, U.S. Patent 6,453,327 (2002)
- Nielsen, J., Tognazzini, B., and Glass, R.: Method and apparatus for eyetrack-mediated downloading, U.S. Patent 6,437,758 (2002)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and system for updating email addresses, U.S. Patent 6,405,243 (2002)
- Nielsen, J.: Local sorting of downloaded tables, U.S. Patent 6,373,504 (2002)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and apparatus for facilitating popup links in a hypertext-enabled computer system, U.S. Patent 6,373,502 (2002)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and apparatus that processes a video signal to generate a random number generator seed, U.S. Patent 6,353,669 (2002)
- Nielsen, J.: Relevance-enhanced scrolling, U.S. Patent 6,339,437 (2002)
- Nielsen, J.: Visualizing degrees of information object attributes, U.S. Patent 6,337,699 (2002)
- Fogg, B.J., and Nielsen, J.: Re-linking technology for a moving web site, U.S. Patent 6,321,242 (2001)
- Nielsen, J.: Adaptive font sizes for network browsing, U.S. Patent 6,278,465 (2001)
- Glass, B., Nielsen, J., and Fogg, B.J.: Restoring broken links utilizing a spider process, U.S. Patent 6,253,204 (2001)
- Nielsen, J., and Fogg, B.J.: Techniques for navigating layers of a user interface, U.S. Patent 6,246,406 (2001)
- Nielsen, J.: Pre-scheduled callback service, U.S. Patent 6,212,268 (2001)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and apparatus for displaying information on a computer controlled display device, U.S. Patent 6,199,080 (2001)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and apparatus for archiving hypertext documents, U.S. Patent 6,199,071 (2001)
- Nielsen, J.: Password helper using a client-side master password which automatically presents the appropriate server-side password in a particular remote server, U.S. Patent 6,182,229 (2001)
- Fogg, B.J., and Nielsen, J.: Probabilistic web link viability marker and web page ratings, U.S. Patent 6,163,778 (2000)
- Nielsen, J., and Fogg, B.J.: Techniques for navigating layers of a user interface, U.S. Patent 6,147,684 (2000)
- Nielsen, J.: System for reminding a sender of an email if recipient of the email does not respond by a selected time set by the sender, U.S. Patent 6,108,688 (2000)
- Nielsen, J.: Tooltips on webpages, U.S. Patent 6,078,935 (2000)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and system for efficient organization of selectable elements on a graphical user interface, U.S. Patent 6,069,625 (2000)
- Nielsen, J.: Subscribed update monitors, U.S. Patent 6,055,570 (2000)
- Nielsen, J.: Apparatus and method for displaying enhanced hypertext link anchor information regarding hypertext page availability and content, U.S. Patent 6,021,435 (2000)
- Nielsen, J.: Password helper using a client-side master password which automatically presents the appropriate server-side password to a particular remote server, U.S. Patent 6,006,333 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and system for efficient organization of selectable elements on a graphical user interface, U.S. Patent 6,005,567 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Automatic development and display of context information in structured documents on the world wide web, U.S. Patent 6,003,046 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and system for regulating discounts on merchandise distributed through networked computer systems, U.S. Patent 6,002,771 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and apparatus for detecting and presenting client side image map attributes including sound attributes using page layout data strings, U.S. Patent 5,991,781 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and apparatus for printing a hyperspacial document, U.S. Patent 5,991,514 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Internet-based spelling checker dictionary system with automatic updating, U.S. Patent 5,970,492 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Method, apparatus and program product for updating visual bookmarks, U.S. Patent 5,963,964 (1999)
- Nielsen, J., Johnson, E., and Gentner, D.R.: Method and system for facilitating access to selectable elements on a graphical user interface, U.S. Patent 5,963,950 (1999)
- Nielsen, J., Tognazzini, B., and Glass, R.: Method and system for providing relevance-enhanced image reduction in computer systems, U.S. Patent 5,960,126 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Fingerprinting plain text information, U.S. Patent 5,953,415 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and system for facilitating the exchange of information between human users in a networked computer system, U.S. Patent 5,948,054 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Tooltips on webpages, U.S. Patent 5,937,417 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and apparatus for obtaining and displaying network server information, U.S. Patent 5,925,106 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Client-side, server-side and collaborative spell check of URLs, U.S. Patent 5,907,680 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Processing HTML to embed sound in a web page, U.S. Patent 5,903,727 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Style sheets for speech-based presentation of web pages, U.S. Patent 5,899,975 (1999)
- Tognazzini, B., Nielsen, J., and Glass, R.: Method and apparatus for eyetrack-driven captioning, U.S. Patent 5,898,423 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and system for efficient organization of selectable elements on a graphical user interface, U.S. Patent 5,897,670 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Methods and apparatus for fixed canvas presentations detecting canvas specifications including aspect ratio specifications within HTML data streams, U.S. Patent 5,897,644 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Spell checking universal resource locator (URL) by comparing the URL against a cache containing entries relating incorrect URLs submitted by users to corresponding correct URLs, U.S. Patent 5,892,919 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Estimating the degree of change of web pages, U.S. Patent 5,890,164 (1999)
- Tognazzini, B., Nielsen, J., and Glass, R.: Method and apparatus for eyetrack-driven information retrieval, U.S. Patent 5,886,683 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Internet-based spelling checker dictionary system with automatic updating, U.S. Patent 5,875,443 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and apparatus for altering sent electronic mail messages, U.S. Patent 5,870,548 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and apparatus for managing subscriptions to distribution lists, U.S. Patent 5,864,684 (1999)
- Nielsen, J.: Prospective view for web backtrack, U.S. Patent 5,854,630 (1998)
- Nielsen, J., and Mankoski, A.: Method and apparatus for allowing a user to select from a set of mutually exclusive options, U.S. Patent 5,845,122 (1998)
- Nielsen, J., Tognazzini, B., and Glass, R.: Eyetrack-driven illumination and information display, U.S. Patent 5,835,083 (1998)
- Tognazzini, B., Nielsen, J., and Glass, R.: X-Y viewport scroll using location of display with respect to a point, U.S. Patent 5,831,614 (1998)
- Tognazzini, B., Nielsen, J., and Glass, R.: Method and apparatus for eyetrack derived backtrack, U.S. Patent 5,831,594 (1998)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and system for prioritized downloading of embedded web objects, U.S. Patent 5,826,031 (1998)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and apparatus for receiving electronic mail, U.S. Patent 5,826,022 (1998)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and apparatus for automatic generaton of documents with single-layered backgrounds from documents with multi-layered backgrounds, U.S. Patent 5,819,302 (1998)
- Nielsen, J.: Automatic updates of bookmarks in a client computer, U.S. Patent 5,813,007 (1998)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and system for escrowed backup of hotelled world wide web sites, U.S. Patent 5,812,398 (1998)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and system for resizing the subtitles of a video, U.S. Patent 5,805,153 (1998)
- Nielsen, J.: System and method for temporally varying pointer icons, U.S. Patent 5,784,056 (1998)
- Nielsen, J., and Tognazzini, B.: Videostream management system, U.S. Patent 5,778,137 (1998)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and apparatus that processes a video signal to generate a random number generator seed, U.S. Patent 5,774,549 (1998)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and apparatus for combining truncated hyperlinks to form a hyperlink aggregate, U.S. Patent 5,761,436 (1998)
- Tognazzini, B., Nielsen, J., and Glass, R.: Method and apparatus for eyetrack-driven text enlargement, U.S. Patent 5,731,805 (1998)
- Nielsen, J.: Method and system for implementing hypertext scroll attributes, U.S. Patent 5,659,729 (1997)
Please note that I cannot supply reprints of these papers. A few of the papers (linked below) are available in online versions. - Nielsen, J. (2005). Usability for the Masses. Journal of Usability Studies 1, 1 (Nov), 2-3. ( Online as PDF file.)
- Nielsen, J. (1999). User interface directions for the Web. Communications of the ACM 42, 1 (January), 65-72.
- Gentner, D., and Nielsen, J. (1996). The Anti-Mac interface. Communications of the ACM 39, 6 (August), 70-82.
- Nielsen, J., and Faber, J. M. (1996). Improving System Usability Through Parallel Design. IEEE Computer , 29, 2 (February), 29-35.
- Nielsen, J. (1995). The electronic business card: An experiment in half-dead hypertext. The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 1, 155-168.
- Nielsen, J. (1994). Estimating the number of subjects needed for a thinking aloud test. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 41, 3 (September), 385-397.
- Nielsen, J. (1994). Enhancing the explanatory power of usability heuristics. Proc. ACM CHI'94 Conf. (Boston, MA, April 24-28), 152-158.
- Nielsen, J., and Levy, J. (1994). Measuring usability - preference vs. performance. Communications of the ACM 37, 4 (April), 66-75.
- Nielsen, J. (1993). Iterative user interface design . IEEE Computer 26, 11 (November), 32-41.
- Nielsen, J., and Schaefer, L. (1993). Sound effects as an interface element for older users. Behaviour & Information Technology 12, 4, 208-215.
- Nielsen, J., and Landauer, T. K. (1993). A mathematical model of the finding of usability problems. Proc. ACM INTERCHI'93 Conf. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 24-29 April), 206-213.
- Nielsen, J., and Phillips, V. L. (1993). Estimating the relative usability of two interfaces: Heuristic, formal, and empirical methods compared. Proc. ACM INTERCHI'93 Conf. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 24-29 April), 214-221.
- Nielsen, J. (1993). Noncommand user interfaces. Communications of the ACM 36, 4 (April), 83-99.
- Brothers, L., Hollan, J., Nielsen, J., Stornetta, S., Abney, S., Furnas, G., and Littman, M. (1992). Supporting informal communication via ephemeral interest groups. Proc. ACM CSCW'92 Conf. Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (Toronto, Canada, 1-4 November), 84-90.
- Nielsen, J. (1992). Finding usability problems through heuristic evaluation. Proc. ACM CHI'92 (Monterey, CA, 3-7 May), 373-380.
- Nielsen, J., Bush, R. M., Dayton, T., Mond, N. E., Muller, M. J., and Root, R. W. (1992). Teaching experienced developers to design graphical user interfaces. Proc. ACM CHI'92 (Monterey, CA, 3-7 May), 557-564.
- Nielsen, J. (1992). The usability engineering life cycle. IEEE Computer 25, 3 (March), 12-22.
- Nielsen, J., Frehr, I., and Nymand, H. O. (1991). The learnability of HyperCard as an object-oriented programming system. Behaviour & Information Technology 10, 2 (March-April), 111-120.
- Thovtrup, H., and Nielsen, J. (1991). Assessing the usability of a user interface standard. Proc. ACM CHI'91 Conf. Human Factors in Computing Systems (New Orleans, LA, 28 April-2 May), 335-341.
- Nielsen, J. (1990). Miniatures versus icons as a visual cache for videotex browsing. Behaviour & Information Technology 9, 6 (Nov.-Dec.), 441-449.
- Nielsen, J. (1990). Traditional dialogue design applied to modern user interfaces. Communications of the ACM 33, 10 (October), 109-118.
- Nielsen, J. (1990). A meta-model for interacting with computers. Interacting with Computers 2, 2 (August), 147-160.
- Nielsen, J., and Molich, R. (1990). Heuristic evaluation of user interfaces. Proc. ACM CHI'90 (Seattle, WA, 1-5 April), 249-256.
- Nielsen, J. (1990). The art of navigating through hypertext. Communications of the ACM 33, 3 (March), 296-310.
- Molich, R., and Nielsen, J. (1990). Improving a human-computer dialogue. Communications of the ACM 33, 3 (March), 338-348.
- Andersen, M. H., Nielsen, J., and Rasmussen, H. (1989). A similarity-based hypertext browser for reading the Unix network news. Hypermedia 1, 3, 255-265.
- Nielsen, J. (1989). The matters that really matter for hypertext usability. Proc. ACM Hypertext'89 Conf. (Pittsburgh, PA, 5-8 November), 239-248.
- Nielsen, J. (1989). What do users really want? Int.J. Human-Computer Interaction 1, 2, 137-147.
- Nielsen, J., and Richards, J. T. (1989). The experience of learning and using Smalltalk. IEEE Software 6, 3 (May), 73-77.
- Nielsen, J. (1986). A virtual protocol model for computer-human interaction. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 24 (1986), 301-312.
- Nielsen, J., Mack, R. L., Bergendorff, K. H., and Grischkowsky, N. L. (1986). Integrated software in the professional work environment: Evidence from questionnaires and interviews. Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery Conference Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI'86 (Boston, 13-17 April), 162-167.
- Alertbox column published on the Web since June 1995.
- Norman, D., and Nielsen, J. (2010). Gestural Interfaces: A Step Backwards in Usability, Interactions 12, 5 (September 2010).
- Tognazzini, B., and Nielsen, J. (2001). Beyond the Browser, Inter@ctive Week, March 26, 2001.
- Nielsen, J., and Coyne, K.P. (2001). A Useful Investment: Usability testing costs - but it pays for itself in the long run, CIO Magazine , February 15, 2001
- Nielsen, J., and Tahir, M. (2001). Building Web Sites With Depth, WebTechniques, February 2001.
- Nielsen, J., Coyne, K.P., and Tahir, M. (2001). Make your site usable, PC Magazine, January 2001.
- Nielsen, J., and Tahir, M. (2000). Keep Your Users In Mind: Incorporating Feedback at Several Stages into an Ongoing Design Process Will Help a Site to Thrive, InternetWorld, December 15, 2000.
- Nielsen, J. and Norman, D.A. (2000) Web-Site Usability: Usability on The Web Isn't A Luxury, InformationWeek, January 14, 2000.
- Nielsen, J. (1998). Sun's New Web Design, www.sun.com cover story for January 13, 1998: http://www.sun.com/980113/sunonnet/
- Nielsen, J. (1997). Learning from the real world. IEEE Software 14, 4 (July), 98-99.
- Nielsen, J. (1997). Something is better than nothing. IEEE Software 14, 4 (July), 27-28.
- Nielsen, J. (1997). Usability testing. In Salvendy, G. (Ed.), Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons. 1543-1568.
- Nielsen, J. (1997). Let's Ask the Users. IEEE Software 14, 3 (May), 110-111.
- Nielsen, J. (1997). Guidelines for multimedia on the Web. World Wide Web Consortium's World Wide Web Journal 2, 1 (Winter). Invited paper for the special issue on "Advancing HTML: Style and Substance".
- Nielsen, J. (1997). Usability engineering. In Tucker, A. B. (Ed.), The Computer Science and Engineering Handbook , CRC Press. 1440-1460.
- Nielsen, J. (1997). The use and misuse of focus groups. IEEE Software 14, 1 (January), 94-95.
- Nielsen, J. (1996). Usability metrics: Tracking interface improvements. IEEE Software 13, 6 (November), 12-13.
- Nielsen, J. (1996). A Web design expert reviews the candidates' sites. The New York Times, September 20, 1996. http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/0920candidates.html
- Nielsen, J. (1996). Designing to seduce the user. IEEE Software 13, 5 (September), 18-20.
- Nielsen, J. (1996). Going global with user testing. IEEE Software 13, 4 (July), 129-130.
- Nielsen, J. (1996). Putting the user in user-interface testing. IEEE Software 13, 3 (May), 89-90.
- Nielsen, J. (1996). The impending demise of file systems. IEEE Software 13, 2 (March).
- Nielsen, J. (1996). The importance of being beautiful. IEEE Software 13, 1 (January).
- Nielsen, J. (1995). Using paper prototypes in home-page design. IEEE Software 12, 4 (July), 88-89, 97.
- Nielsen, J. (1995). A home-page overhaul using other Web sites. IEEE Software 12, 3 (May), 75-78.
- Nielsen, J., and Bergman, M. (1995). Independent iterative design: A method that didn't work. In Nielsen, J. (Ed.), Advances in HCI Vol. 5 , Ablex. 235-248.
- Nielsen, J. (1995). Scenarios in discount usability engineering. In Carroll, J. M. (Ed.), Scenario-Based Design, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 59-83.
- Nielsen, J. (1995). Applying discount usability engineering. IEEE Software 12, 1 (January), 98-100.
- Nielsen, J. (1994). As they may work. ACM interactions 1, 4 (October), 19-24.
- Nielsen, J., and Sano, D. (1994). SunWeb: User interface design for Sun Microsystem's internal web. Proc. 2nd World Wide Web Conf. '94: Mosaic and the Web (Chicago, IL, October 17-20), 547-557.
- Nielsen, J. (1994). Why GUI panic is good panic. ACM interactions 1, 2 (April), 55-58.
- Nielsen, J. (1994). Guerrilla HCI: Using discount usability engineering to penetrate the intimidation barrier. In Bias, R. G., and Mayhew, D. J. (Eds.), Cost-Justifying Usability . Academic Press, Boston, MA, 245-272.
- Nielsen, J. (1994). Usability laboratories. Behaviour & Information Technology 13, 1&2, 3-8.
- Nielsen, J. (1993). Is usability engineering really worth it? IEEE Software 10, 6 (November) 90-92.
- Mack, R., and Nielsen, J. (1993). Usability inspection methods. ACM SIGCHI Bulletin 25, 1 (January), 28-33.
- Dumais, S.T., and Nielsen, J. (1992). Automating the assignment of submitted manuscripts to reviewers. Proc. ACM SIGIR'92 15th International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (Copenhagen, Denmark, 21-24 June), 233-244.
- Nielsen, J. (1992). Evaluating the thinking aloud technique for use by computer scientists. In Hartson, H. R. and Hix, D. (Eds.): Advances in Human-Computer Interaction Vol. 3 , Ablex. 69-82.
- Nielsen, J. (1991). Usability considerations in introducing hypertext. In Brown, H. (Ed.), Hypermedia/Hypertext and Object-Oriented Databases , Chapman & Hall, London, 3-15.
- Kain, H., and Nielsen, J. (1991). Estimating the market diffusion curve for hypertext. Impact Assessment Bulletin 9, 1-2 (Spring), 145-157.
- Nielsen, J. (1990). Three medium-sized hypertexts on CD-ROM. ACM SIGIR Forum 24, 1, 2-10.
- Nielsen, J. (1990). Paper versus computer implementations as mockup scenarios for heuristic evaluation. Proc. INTERACT'90 3rd IFIP Conf. Human-Computer Interaction (Cambridge, U.K., 27-31 August), 315-320.
- Nielsen, J. (1990). Usability testing of international interfaces. In Nielsen, J. (Ed.), Designing User Interfaces for International Use, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 39-44.
- Nielsen, J. (1990). Big paybacks from 'discount' usability engineering. IEEE Software 7, 3 (May), 107-108.
- Nielsen, J. (1990). International user interfaces: An exercise. ACM SIGCHI Bulletin 21, 4 (April), 50-51.
- Nielsen, J. (1990). Evaluating hypertext usability. In Jonassen, D.H., and Mandl, H. (Eds.), Designing Hypertext/Hypermedia for Learning , Springer- Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, 147-168. (Paper presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Designing Hypertext/Hypermedia for Learning, TŸbingen, West Germany, 3-7 July 1989).
- Nielsen, J., and Lyngbaek, U. (1990). Two field studies of hypermedia usability. In McAleese, R., and Green, C. (Eds.), Hypertext: State of the Art , Ablex, 64-72. (Paper presented at Hypertext'2, York, United Kingdom, 29-30 June 1989)
- Nielsen, J. (1989). Usability engineering at a discount. In Salvendy, G. and Smith, M.J. (Eds.), Designing and Using Human-Computer Interfaces and Knowledge Based Systems , Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 394-401.
- Nielsen, J. (1989). Prototyping user interfaces using an object-oriented hypertext programming system. Proc. NordDATA'89 Joint Scandinavian Computer Conference (Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-22 June), 485-490.
- Nielsen, J. (1989). Hypertext bibliography. Hypermedia 1, 1 (Spring), 74-91.
- Nielsen, J. (1987). Classification of dialog techniques. ACM SIGCHI Bulletin 19, 2 (October), 30-35.
- Nielsen, J. (1987). A user interface case study of the Macintosh. In Salvendy, G. (Ed.), Cognitive Engineering in the Design of Human-Computer Interaction and Expert Systems . Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers. 241-248.
- Nielsen, J. (1987). Using scenarios to develop user friendly videotex systems. Proceedings NordDATA'87 Joint Scandinavian Computer Conference (Trondheim, Norway, 15-18 June), 133-138.
- Nielsen, J. (1986). Online documentation and reader annotation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Work With Display Units (Stockholm, 12-15 May), 526-529.
- Nielsen, J. (1985). Learning difficulties of programmers faced with a new programming environment. Proceedings of IEEE COMPINT'85 Conference on Computer Aided Technologies (Montréal, Canada, 9-12 September).
- Czerwinski, M., Mountford, S.J., Nielsen, J., Tognazzini, T., and Instone, K. (1997). Web interfaces live: what's hot, what's not? ACM CHI'97 Extended Abstracts (Atlanta, GA, March 22-27), 103-104.
- Nielsen, J., Shafrir, E., Niederst, J., Rosenberg, J., and Wanliss-Orlebar, A. (1995). Cool or content: Design strategies for a million-site Web. World Wide Web Consortium WWW'4 Conf. (Boston, MA, December 11-14).
- Card, S., Gentner, D., Nielsen, J., Henderson, A., and Norman, D. (1995). The Anti-Mac: Violating the Macintosh human interface guidelines. ACM CHI'95 Conference Companion (Denver, CO, May 7-11), 183-184.
- Nielsen, J., Fernandes, T., Wagner, A., Wolf, R., and Ehrlich, K. (1994). Diversified parallel design: Contrasting design aproaches. ACM CHI'94 Conference Companion (Boston, MA, April 24-28).
- Leventhal, L., Teasley, B., Stone, D., Lancaster, A-M., Marcus, A., Nardi, B., Nielsen, J., Kurosu, M., and Heller, R. (1994). Designing for diverse users: Will just a better interface do? ACM CHI'94 Conference Companion (Boston, MA, April 24-28).
- Nielsen, J., Desurvire, H., Kerr, R., Rosenberg, D., Salomon, G., Molich, R., and Stewart, T. (1993). Comparative design review: An exercise in parallel design. Proc. ACM INTERCHI'93 (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 24-29 April), 414-417.
- Nielsen, J., Pemberton, S., and Morris, J. (1993). Visions for SIGCHI Electronic Publishing, ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
- Mulligan, R.M., Dieli, M., Nielsen, J., Poltrock, S., Rosenberg, D., and Rudman, S.E. (1992). Designing usable systems under real-world constraints: A practitioners forum. Proc. ACM CHI'92 (Monterey, CA, 3-7 May), 149-152.
- Nielsen, J., Dray, S.M., Foley, J.D., Walsh, P., and Wright, P. (1990). Usability engineering on a budget. Proc. IFIP INTERACT'90 3rd IFIP Conf. Human-Computer Interaction (Cambridge, U.K., 27-31 August), 1067-1070.
- Perlman, G., Egan, D.E., Ehrlich, K., Marchionini, G., Nielsen, J., and Shneiderman, B. (1990). Evaluating hypermedia systems. Proc. ACM CHI'90 (Seattle, WA, 1-5 April), 387-390.
- Nielsen, J., del Galdo, E.M., Sprung, R.C. and Sukaviriya, P. (1990). Designing for international use (panel). Proc. ACM CHI'90 (Seattle, WA, 1-5 April), 291-294.
- Nielsen, J., and Molich, R. (1989). Teaching user interface design based on usability engineering. ACM SIGCHI Bulletin 21, 1 (July 1989), 45-48.
- Nielsen, J. (1985). An experimental course in software ergonomics. IFIP INTERACT No. 14 (February 1985), 4-6.
- Nielsen, J. (1985). A continuing education course in software ergonomics for programming school teachers. ACM SIGCHI Bulletin 16 , 3 (January 1985), 32-35.
- Nielsen, J. (1984). Three approaches to teaching software ergonomics. Technical Report PB-184, Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark, December 1984.
- Esther Dyson's PC Forum 2001 (Scottsdale, AZ, 2001)
- World Economic Forum (Davos, Switzerland, 2001).
- CHI'94 (Boston, MA, April 24-28), IEEE Software 11, 4 (July), 110-112.
- Usability Professionals Association Annual Meeting (Redmond, WA, July 21-23, 1993), SIGCHI Bulletin 26, 2 (April 1994).
- CHI'92 (Monterey, CA, 3-7 May 1992), IEEE Software 9 , 4 (July 1992), pp. 78- 79.
- CHI'90 (Seattle, WA, 1-5 April 1990), SIGCHI Bulletin 22 , 2 (October 1990), pp. 20-25.
- Hypertext'89 (Pittsburgh, PA, 5-8 November 1989), SIGCHI Bulletin 21, 4 (April 1990), pp. 52-61.
- Hypertext II (York, UK, 29-30 June 1989), SIGCHI Bulletin 21, 2 (October 1989), pp. 41-47.
- CHI'89 (Austin, TX, 30 April - 4 May 1989), SIGCHI Bulletin 21, 2 (October 1989), pp. 28-40.
- British Computer Society HyperHyper workshop (London, UK, 23 February 1989), SIGCHI Bulletin 21, 1 (July 1989), pp. 65-67.
- International Conference on Fifth Generation Computer Systems (Tokyo, Japan, 28 November - 2 December 1988), SIGCHI Bulletin 21, 1 (July 1989), pp. 68-71.
- British Computer Society HCI'88, SIGCHI Bulletin 20, 3 (January 1989), pp. 90-93.
- CHI'88 (Washington, DC, 15-19 May 1988), SIGCHI Bulletin 20, 2 (October 1988), pp. 58-66.
- HyperTEXT'87 (Chapel Hill, NC, 13-15 November 1987), SIGCHI Bulletin 19, 4 (April 1988), pp. 27-35. Also exists in a hypertext version in HyperCard format.
- INTERACT'87 (Stuttgart, FRG, 1-4 September 1987), SIGCHI Bulletin 19, 4 (April 1988), pp. 36-42 and IFIP INTERACT Newsletter No. 21.
- NordDATA'87 Joint Scandinavian Computer Conference (Trondheim, Norway, 15-18 June 1987). Originally written as a hypertext document in Guide format.
- CHI+GI'87 (Toronto, Canada, 5-9 April 1987), ACM SIGCHI Bulletin 19, 2 (October 1987), pp. 58-66.
- Computer-Supported Cooperative Work'86 (Austin, TX, 3-5 December 1986), ACM SIGCHI Bulletin 19, 1 (July 1987), pp. 54-61.
- International Scientific Conference on Work With Display Units (Stockholm, Sweden, 12-15 May 1986), Technical Report ID-TR-1986-13, Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark.
- CHI'86 (Boston, MA, 13-17 April 1986), IFIP INTERACT Newsletter No. 17.
- CHI'85 (San Francisco, CA, 14-18 April 1985), unpublished.
- International Conference on Fifth Generation Computer Systems (Tokyo, Japan, 6-9 November 1984), Technical Report IR-54, Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark. In Danish.
- INTERACT'84 (London, UK, 3-7 September 1984), unpublished. In Danish.
- CHI'83 (Boston, MA, 12-15 December 1983), unpublished. In Danish.
- Review of Doug Menuez: "Defying Gravity: The Making of Newton," ACM SIGCHI Bulletin 26, 1 (January 1994), 73.
- Review of Bruce Tognazzini: "Tog on Interface," ACM SIGCHI Bulletin 25, 2 (April 1993), 54-55.
- Review of Aaron Marcus: "Graphic Design for Electronic Documents and User Interfaces," Science of Computer Programming 18 , 2 (April 1992), 218-221.
- Review of BBC Interactive Television Unit: "Ecodisc," Hypermedia 2, 2 (1990), 176-182.
- Review of Martin Helander (Ed:): "Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction," ACM SIGCHI Bulletin 21, 3 (January 1990), 107-108.
- Review of Adele Goldberg (Ed.): "A History of Personal Workstations," ACM SIGCHI Bulletin 21, 1 (July 1989), 116-119.
- Review of Mike Saenz: "Iron Man Crash," ACM Computer Graphics 22, 5 (October 1988), p. 270.
- Review of Ben Shneiderman: "Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction," ACM SIGCHI Bulletin 18, 3 (January 1987), 85-86.
- Review of Andrew Monk (Ed.): "Fundamentals of Human-Computer Interaction," Behaviour and Information Technology 5, 3 (July-September 1986), 297-298.
- User Interface Design for the WWW, presented at the World Wide Web Consortium WWW'4 conference, Boston, MA, December 11, 1995; the ACM CHI'96 conference, Vancouver, B.C., April 13, 1996; the World Wide Web Consortium WWW'5 conference, Paris, France, May 6, 1996; National Physical Laboratory, London, U.K., May 14, 1996; User Interface'96, Boston, MA, October 9, 1996; ACM CHI'97, Atlanta, GA, 22 March 1997; World Wide Web Consortium WWW'6 conference, Santa Clara, CA, April 7, 1997.
- Usability Inspection Methods, presented at the ACM CHI'94 conference, Boston, MA, April 25, 1994; ACM CHI'95, Denver, CO, May 9, 1995; IFIP INTERACT'95, Lillehammer, Norway, June 26, 1995.
- Usability Engineering, presented at the ACM Greater Boston chapter, Boston, MA, October 16, 1993; National Physical Laboratory, London, January 25, 1994.
- Next-Generation User Interfaces, presented at Metodica seminar, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 16, 1992; Metodica seminar, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 5, 1993; HCI International'93 conference, Orlando, FL, August 10, 1993; National Physical Laboratory, London, January 26, 1994.
- Usability Evaluation and Inspection Methods, presented at the ACM INTERCHI'93 conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 26 April 1993 (had the highest attendance of the 29 tutorials at INTERCHI'93).
- Introduction to Hypertext and Hypermedia, presented at the Danish Datamatics Center, 15 September 1988; National University of Singapore, 18 November 1988; Japan Institute of Systems Research, Osaka, 22 November 1988; ACM conference on Document Processing Systems, Santa Fe, NM, 5 December 1988; the British Computer Society HCI Specialist Group, London, UK, 22 February 1989; ACM CHI'89, Austin, TX, 30 April 1989; University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, August 1989; Third International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Boston, MA, 19 September 1989; Swedish Multimedia conference, Linköping, Sweden, 10 October 1989; ACM Hypertext'89 conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 5 November 1989; ACM CHI'90, Seattle, WA, 1 April 1990; ACM COIS'90 conference on Office Information Systems, Cambridge, MA, 24 April 1990; AAAI'90 National Artificial Intelligence Conference, Boston, MA, 30 July 1990 (co-presented with Gerhard Fischer); ACM SIGGRAPH'90, Dallas, TX, 6 August 1990 (co-presented with John Leggett and Hannah Kain); IFIP INTERACT'90, Cambridge, UK, 27 August 1990; Bellcore/BCC EDD'91 Conference on Electronic Document Delivery, East Brunswick, NJ, 25 March 1991, ACM SIGIR'92, Copenhagen, Denmark, 21 June 1992; ACM Hypertext'93 conference, Seattle, WA 14 November 1993.
- Evaluating Hypertext Usability, co-presented with Lynda Hardman at ACM Hypertext'89 conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 5 November 1989.
- Hypertext, Hypermedia, and HyperCard, presented at the British Computer Society Human-Computer Interaction'88 conference, Manchester, UK, 5 September 1988.
- Introduction to Computer Science Concepts for Human-Computer Interaction, presented at IFIP INTERACT'87, Stuttgart, FRG, 1 September 1987.
- Presentation on usability engineering in the User Interface Strategies '94 satellite television broadcast from the University of Maryland.
- Nielsen, J. (Ed.) (1987). Record of the ACM CHI+GI'87 Workshop on Classification of Dialog Techniques. Technical Report ID-TR-1987-25, Computer Science Department, Technical University of Denmark, August 1987. Contributions by: L.J. Bass, T.W. Bleser, J. Johnson, M.R. Moseley, B.A. Myers, R. Neches, J. Nielsen, M. Schwartz, E. Tarlin, M.J. Tauber, J.E. Ziegler.
- Mack, R.L., and Nielsen, J. (1987). Software integration in the Professional Work Environment: Observations on requirements, usage, and interface issues. Research Report RC12677, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.