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Join the AI Revolution Now, or Forever Regret Missing Out

Jakob Nielsen

Aug 295 min

Join the AI Revolution Now, or Forever Regret Missing Out

The transformative potential of the AI revolution is a career opportunity. Early engagement in AI creates joy and self-realization.

UX Roundup: Why a Tiger? | Design Conference | AI Help Info | UX Degree or Keep Working? | AI Disinflation | IIT Top | AI Filmmaking | Hotshot AI Video

Jakob Nielsen

Aug 2610 min

Why UX Tigers has a tiger brand | Major Design conference | Getting AI to provide help about itself | UX degree or keep working?

Jakob Nielsen

Aug 227 min

AI Optimism

AI’s impact on job markets will likely mirror previous innovations. The projected 10,000x increase in AI by 2027 will bring wealth and jobs.

Innovator’s Dilemma Hits Design: Growing Capabilities of AI-Driven Amateur Design Tools

Jakob Nielsen

Aug 86 min

Innovator’s Dilemma Hits Design: Growing Capabilities of AI-Driven Amateur Design Tools

As AI-powered tools like Freepik and Canva advance and empower amateur designers, is the era of professional designers coming to an end?

Jakob Nielsen

Jul 2210 min

UX salaries down by 12% in a year | To retain top talents, assign them to experiment with AI

High UX Salaries have Held Steady for 26 Years

Jakob Nielsen

Jul 166 min

High UX Salaries have Held Steady for 26 Years

Adjusted for inflation, salaries for UX professionals have been about the same from the earliest salary data in 1998 to the new 2023 data.

SuperGeek vs. SuperUX: Can the Two Meet?

Jakob Nielsen

Jul 310 min

SuperGeek vs. SuperUX: Can the Two Meet?

AI-accelerated teams of the world’s best programmers will be tiny but create $100M/person in startup company value. How can UX keep up?

UX Roundup: Mainstreaming UX | Learn Typography | Personal AI | More UX Jobs | UX Report Where?

Jakob Nielsen

May 277 min

UX Roundup: Mainstreaming UX | Learn Typography | Personal AI | More UX Jobs | UX Report Where?

Summary: UX as presented to the general public | Learn typography concepts through interactive exercises | Use AI for personal tasks, for...

Jakob Nielsen

May 917 min

Peak Programmer ≠ Peak UX

Summary: The Evolution Awaits: In a decade, AI will transform our productivity landscapes, tripling UX outputs and decimating developer...

Jakob Nielsen

May 27 min

Improving UX-Business Fit

UX professionals often struggle to thrive in corporate environments. UX staff can adapt their methods, shape the company, or move jobs.

UX Roundup: Luxury Usability | User Testing, the Movie | AI = Ozempic | Better Analytics | Job Hunt Advice | Design Similarity

Jakob Nielsen

Apr 298 min

Summary: Luxury websites have bad usability | Poster fail: User testing, the movie | AI is Ozempic for the company | Is Microsoft Clarity...

Commodification and Pancaking of UX: Accept Reality and Plan New Career Paths

Jakob Nielsen

Apr 108 min

Commodification and Pancaking of UX: Accept Reality and Plan New Career Paths

UX is evolving rapidly, with AI integration and a shift towards distributed expertise. UX will be like a pancake: spread thin but delicious.

UX Roundup: Portfolio Without Experience | AI-UX Course | Jakob on UX Greece | Test with 5 Users | ImageGen Shootout

Jakob Nielsen

Mar 187 min

UX Roundup: Portfolio Without Experience | AI-UX Course | Jakob on UX Greece | Test with 5 Users | ImageGen Shootout

How to build a UX portfolio before getting your first UX job | Usability testing with 5 users: the comic strip

Jakob Nielsen

Mar 86 min

Directions for the UX Profession

A thematic analysis of social media posts identified key themes, offering a audience-centered perspective on the future of UX design.

UX Roundup: Ideogram Big Improvements | UX Apprentice | High School UX | Kindergarten UX | Self-Taught UX Designers

Jakob Nielsen

Mar 48 min

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

UX Roundup: Top AI Tools | Fewer UX Firms and Teams | UX Fails in Apple Vision Pro | UX Job

Jakob Nielsen

Feb 266 min

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

Jan 1712 min

41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective

Jakob Nielsen has worked in user experience since 1983. Much changed, including moving from academia to practice but the mission remains!

UX Roundup: Product Simplification | Big Text Boxes | Reporting UX Research | UX Jobs | New/Old UX

Jakob Nielsen

Jan 156 min

UX Roundup: Product Simplification | Big Text Boxes | Reporting UX Research | UX Jobs | New/Old UX

Simplifying product lines saves money | Anchor users’ expectations for how much to write by making text entry boxes bigger | Reporting on UX

UX Roundup: Titan of Human Factors | Long UX Career | AI Articulation Barrier | Design Challenge | Leonardo Text | UX Podcast

Jakob Nielsen

Jan 86 min

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

Jakob Nielsen

Dec 28, 20234 min

Keeping Up with Developments in UX

The core UX concepts you learn now will serve you for decades. Just keep an open mind and stay updated with new tech.

4 Metaphors for Working with AI: Intern, Coworker, Teacher, Coach

Top AI Tools Used by UX Professionals

UX Angst of 2023-24

Ideation Is Free: AI Exhibits Strong Creativity, But AI-Human Co-Creation Is Better

The 10 Usability Heuristics Reimagined

Generative AI Enhances Old Users’ Intellectual Performance Through Wise Winnowing

UX Needs a Sense of Urgency About AI

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