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• Evening Keynote with Don Norman Wednesday, December 5th

  November 28, 2012 At Las Vegas Usability Week

• Radio show about Windows 8, with Jakob Nielsen

  November 24, 2012 You'll hear from veteran tech columnist Ted Landau, who writes for The Mac Observer and Macworld, usability guru Jakob Nielsen, who has actually put Windows 8 through a series of intense tests with a panel of experienced PC users, and Avram Piltch, the Online Editorial Director of Laptop magazine.

• Here's how Jakob Nielsen's Windows 8 findings should inform developers

  November 21, 2012 Jakob Nielsen, perhaps our industry's preeminent web usability expert, investigated Windows 8 and found it lacking. But we developers can mitigate some of the problems...

• User interface expert Jakob Nielsen slams Windows 8 and the Surface RT tablet

  November 20, 2012 After conducting a series of tests on Windows 8 and the Surface RT tablet, user interface guru Jakob Nielsen didn’t hold back when detailing how and where Microsoft has failed with both.

• New Research: Intranet Usability Guidelines 3rd Edition Released

  November 19, 2012 The 3rd edition Intranet Usability Guidelines are now available.

• New Mobile Usability Book Released

  October 25, 2012 Mobile Usability, the new book by Jakob Nielsen and Raluca Budiu, examines how we can create satisfactory user experiences for small devices. This new guide focuses on usability for mobile devices, primarily smartphones and touchphones, and covers mobile strategy, designing for small screens, writing for mobile, usability comparisons, and looking toward the future.

• Manufacturing, Design, and Innovation

  October 1, 2012 An expanded version of Don Norman's welcoming address to the "Workshop on Building the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation."

• Video: Don Norman and John Maeda

  July 31, 2012 Don Norman, Principal of Nielsen Norman Group, and John Maeda, now president of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) had a public, semi-moderated discussion at a PARC Forum.

• The Remote Control Where Do We Go From Here?

  July 5, 2012 One hour podcast: According to one of today's guests, the percentage of television-owning households with remote controls did not break 50 until right around then. Now we all have them. And we get bitter about needing three of them to do more or less one thing. And we hate their complexity and the number of buttons that don't seem connected to anything. This is probably their twilight, anyway, as you'll see after the news.

• Interview with Don Norman: The Future of Automobiles

  May 16, 2012 Don Norman was interviewed by Neil Briscoe for an article in IrishTimes.com: Is the love affair about to end? "Are cars as we know them to become a thing of the past?" asks the article. Where is the room for "Driving passion"? The question, Briscoe points out, is whether we can continue to have single people driving around, each in a ton and a half of metal.