

UX Roundup: AI Music and Video Upgrades | Survey Length | Self-Driving Safety | AI GDP Metric | Amazon Dark Design
Summary : New versions of leading AI music and video models Suno and Kling | Shorter surveys have higher validity | Safety update for...

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 29, 202511 min read


Transformative AI Changes the Future of Work and Firms
Summary: Transformative AI (TAI) is AI that fundamentally changes the economy, increasing productivity at an unprecedented rate and...

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 25, 202520 min read


UX Roundup: Forward Deployed Engineers | AI GUI Controls | Apple Liquid Glass UI | User Testing Explained
Summary : Forward Deployed Engineers are the new user researchers | Reve has GUI controls for AI image editing | Apple Liquid Glass UI...

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 22, 202512 min read


Email Newsletters Build Loyal Audiences
Email newsletters outperform social media for audience loyalty because they're permission-based, direct channels. Unlike platform-dependent followers, subscribers actively choose your content. As AI disintermediates search traffic, owned email lists become strategic imperatives for direct audience access.

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 18, 202525 min read


UX Roundup: User Testing | AI Ads | Users Like AI | Multiple Analytics Experiments | Low-Fi Prototyping | AI for User Research
Summary : User Testing 12-step process | AI advertisements outperformed human-created ads | Users give high NPS scores to the main AI...

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 15, 202512 min read


AI-First Companies
Summary: AI-First means massive automation to repetitive tasks, rapid iteration over perfection, ubiquitous AI integration across...

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 11, 202517 min read


UX Roundup: AI Job Losses for Young Staff | Founder Mode | Learn AI-First Design | Secondary Research | Comparing Avatar Tools
AI’s impact on job prospects for junior vs. senior employees | Founder Mode | Learn AI-First design | Secondary user research | Comparing avatars animated with HeyGen and Chinese AI tool Wan

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 8, 202513 min read


12 Steps for Usability Testing: Plan, Run, Analyze, Report
User testing is straightforward, but it involves many moving parts, making it best to have a systematic process for planning and executing studies, as well as ensuring follow-up.

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 4, 202532 min read


UX Roundup: Corkboard Mockup | Loss-Making Promos | AI Movie | Video-to-Music | Mainstream AI | Young Staff Loves AI | Nano Banana | Emotional Speech Model
Corkboard mockup of project history | Are promotions profitable or not? | Making a short AI film | Auto-creating music based on a video | AI is becoming the norm for online shoppers in the United States | High AI adoption among entry-level employees in poor and middle-income countries | Google’s new Nano Banana image editing model | Microsoft releases T2V model that generates emotional speech

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 1, 202513 min read
