Jakob Nielsen
Dec 28, 20234 min read
Keeping Up with Developments in UX
The core UX concepts you learn now will serve you for decades. Just keep an open mind and stay updated with new tech.
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 26, 202310 min read
UX Roundup: Top UX Articles of 2023 | AI Sings | AI as Provocateur | Integrate AI in Apps | Package Delivery UX | Reporting UX Research | Midjourney Can Spell | UX-AI Job: Ideogram
Jakob’s top-10 articles and top-3 videos in 2023 | AI sings about the 10 usability heuristics | The future of work: changing AI metaphor
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 20, 20237 min read
Rebirth of the UX Unicorn?
Summary: UX professionals who are good at all steps of the UX lifecycle, including both research and design, are called “UX unicorns”...
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 18, 202310 min read
UX Roundup: Size Matters | AI-UX Job Opening | Midjourney App | Urgency for UX in AI | Eye Contact
Summary: Visualize the size of objects on ecommerce product pages | Job Openings: UX Research Generative AI @ Microsoft | Midjourney’s...
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 15, 20234 min read
Generating Persistent Characters: Still Too Difficult
Generative AI for images does not draw the same characters with the same appearance in different illustrations, as needed for personas.
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 13, 202316 min read
Artificial Empathy: Is It Still Empathy?
Is AI an unfeeling machine, or can it exhibit empathy? Do users feel empathy when interacting with AI? A debate.
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 11, 20238 min read
UX Roundup: 100K LinkedIn Followers | Jakob & ADPList | AI UI Beyond Chat | UX Writing & AI
How Jakob gained 100,000 followers on LinkedIn | AI model answers UX questions | Write like a machine, think like a human.
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 8, 20238 min read
Big Productivity Gains in Office Use of AI
Microsoft Copilot increases the productivity of office tasks by around 40%, with even higher gains seen for search tasks.
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 6, 20239 min read
Dark Design Patterns Catalog
India outlawed 12 common dark design patterns. These sneaky practices are unethical applications of established UX knowledge to harm users.
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 4, 20236 min read
UX Roundup: Live Tomorrow | Irrelevant User Research | Good Taste or Numbers | UX Business Impact
Wasting user research on low-value questions | Frame UX work for higher business impact | AI impact on the design profession: good taste
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 1, 20236 min read
Being Taken Seriously as a Young UX Professional
A blend of heuristic evaluation and usability testing builds credibility. Young UXers should avoid being the sole UX talent in a startup.