

UX News: AI User Behaviors | Brevity | My vs. Your | Design for Legacy | Screentime for Toddlers
UX News for Sept 25: AI user behaviors, UX writing, design for legacy systems, screen exposure and childhood development

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 24, 20235 min read


Navigating the Web with Text vs. GUI Browsers: AI UX Is 1992 All Over Again
Only after GUI browsers launched in 1993 did the web explode. AI needs a similar GUI revolution in usability.

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 22, 20234 min read


AI Helps Elite Consultants: Higher Productivity & Work Quality, Narrower Skills Gap
Consultants at a top-3 company had 33% higher productivity and achieved a 40% quality gain when using AI.

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 20, 20237 min read


UX News: Winning UX Tools | Error Messages | Showing Payment Options | Virtual Girlfriend
Award-Winning AI-Enabled UX Design & Research Tools You Need to Try | Flow chart for better error messages | Alternate payment options

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 18, 20237 min read


Replication Crisis in Website Analytics: The Trouble with UX Stats
Many analytics results are wrong. Better tests will be more expensive and identify fewer design winners. This lowers ROI from analytics.

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 15, 20239 min read


UX Angst of 2023-24
The UX sky’s not falling; it’s reshaping. AI integration will facilitate a UX renaissance, while the profession’s growth shows viability.

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 13, 202313 min read


UX News: Discount Envy | AI for All | GUI Toggle Design | Tradeshow User Research | Lightweight UI
Coupon-code fields make ecommerce shoppers green with discount envy | Guidelines for toggle switch design | User research at tradeshows

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 11, 20238 min read


Jakob’s Law of the Internet User Experience
Users spend most of their time on other websites, so they expect your site to work like all the other sites they already know.

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 8, 20238 min read


AI’s Role in Human-AI Symbiosis: Originator or Refiner
It is cheaper to let AI take the initiative in human–AI collaborations where it generates a range of initial ideas for humans to winnow.

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 6, 20237 min read


UX News: Infant Screen Use | UX Salaries Drop | UX Haikus | Single-Word Prompts | AI Awareness
UX News: Infant Screen Use | UX Salaries Drop | UX Haikus | Single-Word Prompts | AI Awareness

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 4, 202310 min read


Classic Usability Important for AI
AI products are fraught with basic usability errors, violating decades-old UX findings. Simple fixes will save AI users much pain.

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 1, 20238 min read


Search vs. AI: What’s Faster?
User productivity was 158% higher when answering questions with ChatGPT than with Google. Satisfaction scores were higher for AI than search

Jakob Nielsen
Aug 30, 20237 min read


UX News Roundup for August 28
UX News Roundup: A collection of recommended links with comments.

Jakob Nielsen
Aug 28, 20235 min read


Will AI Cause Wage Stagnation or Growth?
Average wages are flat for the first 50 years after a major economic revolution. AI is a revolution, but with a different outcome.

Jakob Nielsen
Aug 25, 20237 min read


Automated Content Strategy and Tone-of-Voice Metrics
AI tools analyze large volumes of content & provide metrics like readability, style, & sentiment. Track content quality at scale, over time.

Jakob Nielsen
Aug 23, 202310 min read
