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How Jakob Nielsen influenced your user experience-related career.

Keith Instone. Jakob always seemed to be working in the same space at the same time. And he was very accessible. Hypertext research - used his Hypertext books as textbooks in classes I was teaching. Getting feedback from him on our HyperHolmes research project. The Web came along and we were showing up at CHI workshops together. Applying HCI to the web (before it was cool). And so on. Jakob has influenced a lot of people in a lot of ways, but for me it was thru a thousand emails on specific, tiny projects that I was doing that has the biggest impact on me personally.