

Jakob Nielsen
14 hours ago7 min read
UX Roundup: Status Updates | AI Tutoring | UX Optimism | Ideogram Text | AI-UX Conference | EU Multilingual LLM
Being asked for a status update is a bad sign | Strong results from AI tutors | UX Optimism | EU multilingual LLM


Jakob Nielsen
3 days ago5 min read
Deep Research: First Impressions
Summary: OpenAI’s new Deep Research offers rapid data synthesis and a novel approach to user interaction with shared dialogue initiative....


Jakob Nielsen
4 days ago11 min read
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
6 days ago23 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 313 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
Jan 3012 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 278 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 209 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 1311 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 99 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 69 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 25 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
Dec 30, 202412 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 23, 202412 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 19, 202415 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 16, 20249 min read
UX Roundup: Designing AI Voices | AI Narrows Skill Gaps | New Music Video | Talk to Santa | Misadventures in Image Prompting | Bezos 95% AI | Multi-Tool AI Workflow | AI-UX Jobs
Emotional intent in AI voices | AI narrows skill gaps | Combining multiple AI tools into a single workflow | 13 AI-UX job openings Microsoft


Jakob Nielsen
Dec 11, 202410 min read
UX Roundup: AI Follow-Up Questions in Usability Studies | Top UX Evaluation Methods | AI Use in UX | Keep Users in the Flow | New Grok Image Model
Summary : AI can ask follow-up questions in usability sessions | The top 3 UX evaluation methods | AI use in UX | New hybrid UI for AI...


Jakob Nielsen
Dec 9, 20248 min read
UX Roundup: ElevenLabs Podcast | Usability Guidelines as Figma Plugin | AI Kills Companies | o1 and o1 Pro
New podcast creation | Figma Plugin with UX design guidelines | Traditional company business models disrupted by AI | New AI models


Jakob Nielsen
Dec 5, 20248 min read
UX Roundup: AI Video Editing | AI Avatars Compared | NotebookLM Team Leaves | Monthly, Not Yearly AI Subs
AI-Assisted Video Editing with CapCut | Comparing services for generating AI avatars | The core NotebookLM team leaves Google


Jakob Nielsen
Dec 2, 20249 min read
UX Roundup: Cookie Banners Waste Time | Building AI Infrastructure | Bigger AI Training Clusters | AI Avatar Keynote Summary | Virtual Try-On
Cookie banners waste 575 M hours of European users’ time annually | Jensen Huang on AI infrastructure | AI training clusters keep growing