Usability Engineering

Nielsen, J. (1993). Usability Engineering. Academic Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1993

DOI

10.1016/c2009-0-21512-1

ISBN

9780125184069

Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/C2009-0-21512-1

Cited from

art_aesthetics, human_computer_interaction

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Minimalism
  • Every remaining feature is essential, carries visible weight, and demands user attention

    This sourceFoundational usability text whose "minimalist design" heuristic (one of ten) requires that dialogues contain no irrelevant or rarely needed information; basis for minimalist UI evaluation.

• Progressive Disclosure
  • Human-computer interaction. Menus that show common options first and "More…" for the rest; wizards that ask one question per screen; documentation with summary-then-details collapsibles.

Domain-specific

• Curse Of Knowledge
  • Pedagogy — expert teachers overestimate student understanding, skip steps that feel obvious, and compress acquisition timelines; pretesting and novice-paired teaching are the counter-moves. User-experience design — designers who built a system cannot reliably predict where naive users get stuck, which is much of why usability testing exists.

    This sourceEstablishes why designers cannot predict where naive users get stuck, grounding usability testing as the route-through-the-audience corrective.

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