

UX Roundup: AI-First Design | Dark Design | Non-Deterministic UX | Jakob Live | User Research Job
AI-First Products | Dark Design | Perplexity AI
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 29, 20245 min read


Specification Lists Have Terrible Usability
Dissecting the anatomy of specification sheets on ecommerce platforms. Using Amazon as a case study to illustrate common pitfalls.
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 26, 20243 min read


Time Scales of UX: From 0.1 Seconds to 100 Years
UX unfolds over time, with a factor of 31 billion from the shortest time period of interest (0.1 seconds) to a century for social change.
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 24, 20248 min read


UX Roundup: Domain-Optimized AI | Be a Test User | Heuristic Evaluation Template | Jakob Live
Optimizing AI answers for a specific domain and perspective | Participate in user-research studies yourself | Heuristic evaluation template.
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 22, 20244 min read


AI Habit Formation: Future-Proofing Your UX Career
Integrate AI into your UX workflow through effective habit formation: establish cues that trigger regular AI use to build your expertise.
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 19, 20243 min read


41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective
Jakob Nielsen has worked in user experience since 1983. Much changed, including moving from academia to practice but the mission remains!
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 17, 202412 min read


UX Roundup: Product Simplification | Big Text Boxes | Reporting UX Research | UX Jobs | New/Old UX
Simplifying product lines saves money | Anchor users’ expectations for how much to write by making text entry boxes bigger | Reporting on UX
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 15, 20246 min read


The 3 Ages of Authorship and Creation
Oral tradition, writing and printing, and newly developing human-AI co-created media differ along multiple dimensions.
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 12, 202411 min read


10,000 Newsletter Subscribers
From zero to ten thousand subscribers in half a year. Why are email subscribers the most important success metric, and how does one grow it?
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 10, 20244 min read


UX Roundup: Titan of Human Factors | Long UX Career | AI Articulation Barrier | Design Challenge | Leonardo Text | UX Podcast
Jakob Nielsen named “Titan of Human Factors” | Retrospective on a long UX career | The articulation barrier to using AI is similar to DOS
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 8, 20246 min read


Curating AI-Generated Images
In an AI-saturated future, true design skill lies not in creation but in the art of choice. Case study: human judgment of 4 AI-generated pix
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 4, 202412 min read


UX Roundup: Animate Like Bugs | Animation Overload | Image Prompting | Social Media Likes
UX animations should emulate the cartoon physics of Bugs Bunny | AI animation overload looms | Most-liked UX postings on LinkedIn
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 2, 20247 min read