DeepSeek: Does a Small AI Model Invalidate Big Models?
In several challenges, the new Chinese AI model DeepSeek R1 performed at the level expected of the best current-generation U.S. AI models.
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 3012 min read
Error Message Usability
Jakob Nielsen’s usability heuristic 9: Help Users Recognize, Diagnose, and Recover from Errors.
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 285 min read
UX Roundup: Wealth and Happiness | Wealth and AI | ASI and Unemployment
The relationship between wealth and happiness | Wealth and AI | Superintelligent AI and human unemployment
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 278 min read
UX Roundup: AI Research Window | AI Skill Substitution | World Economic Forum Predicts More UX Jobs | AI-UX Consultant | Bad Bird Lip-Synch
Closing AI research window | Inflection point for AI skill substitution | UX job growth | AI-UX consulting | Animating cute animals
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 209 min read
UX Roundup: Poor AI Performance Conversing with Patients | AI Character Mashups | 2025 AI Trends | Accelerating Science | AI Progression
AI does worse than human doctors when eliciting clinical information in conversations with patients | AI mashups of famous characters
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 1311 min read
Can AI Identify an Author’s Background from a Writing Sample?
Analyzing writing to identify the author’s native origin is a task that’s borderline beyond the capabilities of current AI.
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 99 min read
UX Roundup: 2025 UX Themes | Put New AI Models to the Test | AI Slide Creation | AI Analyzing Usability Tests | AI Job Creation | AI & UX Jobs
6 themes for UX in 2025 | Testing new AI with your own challenging tasks | AI middling at analyzing usability tests | AI’s impact on UX jobs
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 69 min read
Top 10 UX Videos of 2024
Jakob Nielsen’s top videos from 2024 include both old-school live humans in and AI-generated videos. AI video progressed immensely this year
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 25 min read