I wrote some rant about Nielsen somewhere else in this forum.
One visit to his personal website (his idea of how design should be) is enough to make you want to slit your wrists from the boring banality of it.
As I said previously Nielsen is as much of a design Nazi as the wanky art-for-arts sake brigade. He's just at the other extreme. If real life mirrored his ideas, we'd all have L and R tattooed on our hands and feet to help us remember which was which.