> Designers hated Nielsen.

Several of the designers I worked with liked him, in as much as he gave them research to back them in their arguments with clients that the site should actually be usable.

It is still one of the high points of my career that I was part of a team that shipped an internet banking application that worked well in the then-current major browsers of IE 6 and Navigator 4, but also worked in Lynx and on a Palm Pilot browser.

We've now degenerated to the point that "engineers" demand Chrome everywhere.