

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

Jakob Nielsen
Mar 4, 20248 min read


Accessibility Has Failed: Try Generative UI = Individualized UX
Traditional accessibility methods have been tried for 30 years without improving usability for disabled users. Generative UI may be better.

Jakob Nielsen
Feb 29, 20247 min read


UX Roundup: Top AI Tools | Fewer UX Firms and Teams | UX Fails in Apple Vision Pro | UX Job
Fewer specialized UX firms and corporate departments, but more UX jobs | Apple Vision Pro exhibits many usability flaws.

Jakob Nielsen
Feb 26, 20246 min read


Multi-Craft Specialized Content in the AI Era
AI won’t replace human creativity, it will amplify it. Forget mass-market entertainment; the true revolution is in hyper-targeted content.

Jakob Nielsen
Feb 22, 20248 min read


UX Roundup: AI Songs | 5-AI Combo | Jakob Live Thursday | AI User Interviews | 100 Articles
AI-generated songs: Long vs. short | Combining contributions from 5 AI tools into one design | Conducting user interviews at scale with AI

Jakob Nielsen
Feb 19, 20246 min read


How I Developed the 10 Usability Heuristics
Jakob Nielsen’s 10 usability heuristics were defined from a factor analysis of a large set of usability principles.

Jakob Nielsen
Feb 15, 20248 min read


UX Roundup: AI Narrows Skill Gaps | Apple Vision Pro | Jakob Live | Google Image FX | Hyperspecialized UX | Google Gemini | TV Shoot | OpenAI Growth | Overresponsible AI
A study of law students completing assignments shows that AI use helped weaker students the most, narrowing the skill gap

Jakob Nielsen
Feb 12, 20249 min read


Individualizing UX: Ever Narrower User Targeting
User targeting in UX has progressed through 5 stages : target audience, personas, customization, personalization, AI individualization.

Jakob Nielsen
Feb 8, 20247 min read


UX Roundup: AI As General-Purpose Tech | AI Can Do Card Sorting | Mental Models | ChatGPT Lazy Fix | New Song
AI is a general-purpose technology that can double economic growth | Comparing human card sorting with AI categorization

Jakob Nielsen
Feb 5, 20249 min read


What AI Can and Cannot Do for UX
AI can already perform many UX tasks. It will do more in the future, including maybe UI design. But AI will not replace watching users.

Jakob Nielsen
Feb 1, 20248 min read


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
