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Didn’t feel like reporting on anything today and wanted to do something cheerful. Webreference reviewed Jakob Nielsen’s newest book, Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed and I got it in my head to do a song on him. Here’s what popped up. Apologies to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice for messing with their song and Dr. Nielsen for making him the subject.

JAKOB NIELSEN Sung to the tune of Jacob and Sons from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Music (scroll down to select from list) Lyrics

Way way back many years ago Not long after the Internet began Jakob co-founded Nielsen Norman He proclaimed himself the usability man Jakob. Jakob Nielsen. Depended on old browsers to earn his keep Jakob. Jakob Nielsen. Spent his days talking and making designers bleep

Jakob was the founder of a whole usability nation Thanks to the number of supporters he had He was also known as usability guru, but most of the time Everyone called him a passing fad. Jakob. Jakob Nielsen. Use no graphics and only black text says his book Jakob. Jakob Nielsen. If you want your users to take another look.

Usability Engineering was the first of his books Multimedia and Hypertext the next in line Advances in Human/Computer Interaction Designing Web Usability that made us all whine Jakob. Jakob Nielsen. Homepage Usability is the latest one

Jakob. Jakob Nielsen. Jakob — Jakob’s favorite one Jakob. Jakob Nielsen. Jakob. Jakob Nielsen. Jakob. Jakob Nielsen. Jakob, Jakob, Jakob Jakob. Jakob Nielsen.