Jakob Nielsen
Mar 29, 202410 min read
UX Roundup: AI in the Classroom | UX Design Bias | New AI-UX Course | UX Certification | Disappointing Sora Videos
Educational use of AI-generated songs | Weakness of manual UX design | Disappointing AI videos from pro filmmakers
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 27, 202417 min read
Top AI Tools Used by UX Professionals
UX professionals used 93 different AI tools: 12 UX-specific AI tools were fairly popular. Low overlap in popular AI between UX & the public
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 25, 20248 min read
UX Roundup: Have AI Check You | Toast Notifications | GUI Course | Boring UX | Human Designer vs. AI Design
Turning the tables: Use AI to check your work | Toast notifications are a burnt GUI widget | Do people prefer human or AI design?
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 22, 202410 min read
UX Roundup: Early Facebook UX | Hybrid UI for Generative UI | Eyetracking | Slack UX | Small-Language GPT | AI UX Courses | Jakob Live | Better AI Songs
Julie Zhou recalls Facebook’s early user interface designs | Tools for generative UI need a hybrid UI | Early eyetracking reseach
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 20, 20245 min read
Does AI Numb the Brain?
Will AI turn our brains to mush? History suggests otherwise. New tech always sparks fears of cognitive decline. But AI will free our minds.
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 18, 20247 min read
UX Roundup: Portfolio Without Experience | AI-UX Course | Jakob on UX Greece | Test with 5 Users | ImageGen Shootout
How to build a UX portfolio before getting your first UX job | Usability testing with 5 users: the comic strip
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 15, 20248 min read
UX Roundup: AI Saves Fuel | Checkboxes Must be Square | Good Books | AI Jobs Grow | Perplexity Grows
Saving fuel by AI-optimized airline routing | Apple violates 40 years of GUI standards | Recommended reading about storytelling and non-UX
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 13, 20245 min read
A/B Testing Paradox: UX Maturity Reduces Your Gains
A dataset of 74 A/B tests shows average KPI lifts of 0.2% from the statistically-significant experiments. This produced ROI of 620%.
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 11, 20249 min read
UX Roundup: Time Estimates for Quant Projects | LinkedIn Rant | Benchmarking UX | Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan UX | Free AI Courses
Estimating the time duration of quantitative user research projects | LinkedIn’s anti-link algorithm is bad | Benchmarking research.
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 8, 20246 min read
Directions for the UX Profession
A thematic analysis of social media posts identified key themes, offering a audience-centered perspective on the future of UX design.
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 6, 20246 min read
Embrace AI’s Uncertainty in UX
AI’s probabilistic nature changes all areas of user experience, impacting users, UX researchers, and designers.
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 4, 20248 min read
UX Roundup: Ideogram Big Improvements | UX Apprentice | High School UX | Kindergarten UX | Self-Taught UX Designers
Ideogram 1.0 huge improvements in text rendering + image quality | You don’t need a university degree to do UX | Self-taught UX designers