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Optimizing AI answers for a specific domain and perspective | Participate in user-research studies yourself | Heuristic evaluation template.

Integrate AI into your UX workflow through effective habit formation: establish cues that trigger regular AI use to build your expertise.

Oral tradition, writing and printing, and newly developing human-AI co-created media differ along multiple dimensions.

Jakob Nielsen named “Titan of Human Factors” | Retrospective on a long UX career | The articulation barrier to using AI is similar to DOS

In an AI-saturated future, true design skill lies not in creation but in the art of choice. Case study: human judgment of 4 AI-generated pix

Jakob’s top-10 articles and top-3 videos in 2023 | AI sings about the 10 usability heuristics | The future of work: changing AI metaphor

Summary:  UX professionals who are good at all steps of the UX lifecycle, including both research and design, are called “UX unicorns”...

Summary: Visualize the size of objects on ecommerce product pages | Job Openings: UX Research Generative AI @ Microsoft | Midjourney’s...

Generative AI for images does not draw the same characters with the same appearance in different illustrations, as needed for personas.

Is AI an unfeeling machine, or can it exhibit empathy? Do users feel empathy when interacting with AI? A debate.

How Jakob gained 100,000 followers on LinkedIn | AI model answers UX questions | Write like a machine, think like a human.

Microsoft Copilot increases the productivity of office tasks by around 40%, with even higher gains seen for search tasks.

Wasting user research on low-value questions | Frame UX work for higher business impact | AI impact on the design profession: good taste

Summary: Implications of the near-disaster at OpenAI | Improving productivity of UX work by using AI | Writing good headlines for UX...

11 books about UX for free download | US Department of Defense AI deployment plan | Design UX for the fact that users anthropomorphize AI

Content creators face reduced search traffic due to AI's prowess in delivering tailored answers. Permission marketing is the way.

UX hot take on OpenAI’s keynote announcements | Jakob’s Razor: don’t overcomplicate matters and start with a qualitative user test w 5 users

For max benefit, decisions to deploy AI solutions must be based on comparing AI with the average human performance, not the very best human.

Unlike search, AI synthesizes a single clear answer from all available info, tailored to the user’s specific query and circumstances.