Jakob Nielsen

Jakob Nielsen

male, 52 years old (Fremont, California, United States)
usability, Nielsen Norman Group, user experience, web usability, Nielsen's Law, HCI
Jakob Nielsen (born 1957 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a writer, speaker, and consultant on software and web-design usability. He earned a Ph.D. in...
Ben Shneiderman

Ben Shneiderman

male, 62 years old
professor, University of Maryland, College Park, human-computer interaction researcher, Nassi-Shneiderman diagram, human–computer interaction, Human-computer interaction notables…HCI
Ben Shneiderman is an American computer scientist. He provided fundamental research in the field of human–computer interaction. Shneiderman cu...
Donald Norman

Donald Norman

male
Human-computer interaction notables, professor, University of California, San Diego, Nielsen Norman Group, computer scientist, Jakob Nielsen…HCI
Donald A. Norman is a professor emeritus of cognitive science at University of California, San Diego and a Professor of Computer Science at...
Alan Cooper

Alan Cooper

male
visual basic, Interaction Design, father of Visual Basic, vb, user interface, usability…HCI
Alan Cooper, an advocate of interaction design, runs a design company and writes books about how to make software user interfaces more usable....
Terry Winograd

Terry Winograd

male, 63 years old (Stanford, California, United States)
human-computer interaction researcher, Stanford University faculty, professor, computer scientist, HCI, Groupware
Terry Allen Winograd (born February 24, 1946) is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He is known within the philosophy of mind...
Jef Raskin

Jef Raskin

male, deceased (2005)
apple macintosh, macintosh, State University of New York at Stony Brook alumni, human-computer interaction notable, Apple employee, HCI
Jef Raskin (March 9, 1943-February 26, 2005) was an American human-computer interface expert best-known for starting the Macintosh project for...
Stuart Card

Stuart Card

male
human computer interaction, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, HCI, human-computer interaction researcher, CHI Academy, Stuart K. Card
Stuart K. Card is a Senior Research Fellow at Xerox PARC. He has been at PARC since 1974, and is now the Area Manager of the User Interface...
Douglas Engelbart

Douglas Engelbart

male, 84 years old
computer pioneer, computer mouse, invented the mouse, GUIs, Human-Computer Interaction, mouse…HCI
Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925 in Oregon) is an American inventor of Swedish and Norwegian descent. He is best known for inventing...
Marissa Mayer

Marissa Mayer

female, 34 years old
Google, Google employee, Stanford University alumni, Stanford University, Businesswoman, search engine…HCI
Marissa leads the product management efforts on Google's search products - web search, images, groups, news, Froogle, the Google Toolbar, Google...
Paul Fitts

Paul Fitts

male, deceased (1965)
Fitts' Law, aviation safety, Human-computer interaction notables, HCI, Human-Computer Interaction, mathematical model
Paul M. Fitts was a psychologist at Ohio State University (later at the University of Michigan). He developed a model of human movement, Fitts'...