

AI Scaling Laws 4 & 5: More Engineers and Designers
The first 3 AI scaling laws say that increasing machine resources boosts intelligence. The next two scaling laws hinge on more humans.

Jakob Nielsen
Feb 711 min read


AI Stigma: Why Some Users Resist AI’s Help
Persistent human skepticism toward AI outputs despite superior performance in medical, creative, and analytical tasks.

Jakob Nielsen
Feb 523 min read


UX Roundup: Outpacing Human Aging | Animating Paintings | Domain-Specific UX | Bad AI Video | Top Avatars Vary by Platform | Search Research | o3-mini
Tech advances outpace human aging | Specializing in design for a target domain | The best-performing Avatars vary by social-media platform

Jakob Nielsen
Feb 313 min read


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


Top 10 UX Articles of 2024
Jakob Nielsen's 2024 articles document UX as a field in transition, being revolutionized by AI, causing a need for professional development.

Jakob Nielsen
Dec 30, 202412 min read


Top 10 UX Images of 2024
Summary : These are the best images published in Jakob Nielsen’s articles during 2024. Three different AI image-generating tools were...

Jakob Nielsen
Dec 26, 20244 min read


UX Roundup: Sora: Not Impressed | AI Startups Growth | Hiring Staff with AI Skills | 150K LinkedIn Followers | AI Training on YouTube | Apple Intelligence Useless | Dr. AI | New o3 model
AI Startups Growth | Hiring Staff with AI Skills | Apple Intelligence Useless | Dr. AI | New o3 model

Jakob Nielsen
Dec 23, 202412 min read


Service as a Software: The New SaaS
AI-provisioned intelligence will become almost free, and instantly available. AI ll take over much work as a packed instant service provider

Jakob Nielsen
Dec 19, 202415 min read