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UX Roundup: Live Tomorrow | Irrelevant User Research | Good Taste or Numbers | UX Business Impact

Jakob Nielsen

5 days ago
6 min

UX Roundup: Live Tomorrow | Irrelevant User Research | Good Taste or Numbers | UX Business Impact

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

Being Taken Seriously as a Young UX Professional

Jakob Nielsen

Dec 1
6 min

Being Taken Seriously as a Young UX Professional

A blend of heuristic evaluation and usability testing builds credibility. Young UXers should avoid being the sole UX talent in a startup.

UX Roundup: OpenAI Debacle | Productive AI in UX | Better Headlines | Faster Horses | Solo UXer

Jakob Nielsen

Nov 27
8 min

UX Roundup: OpenAI Debacle | Productive AI in UX | Better Headlines | Faster Horses | Solo UXer

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

Professional Growth for a Solo UX Practitioner

Jakob Nielsen

Oct 27
10 min

Professional Growth for a Solo UX Practitioner

Strategy for a UX professional to gain skills and professional acumen despite being the only UX specialist in a company.

Jakob Nielsen

Oct 25
34 min

UX in Africa

UX is rapidly growing in Africa, especially in startups and Fintech companies. The continent’s young population eagerly adopts technology.

Jakob Nielsen

Oct 18
15 min

Getting Started with AI for UX

Use generative-AI tools to support and enhance your UX skills — not to replace them. Start with small UX tasks, and watch out for bad advice

UX Roundup: User Retention Metrics | UX Writing | Kano Model | Mobile First Harmful | UX Soloist

Jakob Nielsen

Oct 16
6 min

UX Roundup: User Retention Metrics | UX Writing | Kano Model | Mobile First Harmful | UX Soloist

Most companies use wrong user metrics to measure retention. Mobile-First design bad for desktop users. Professional growth for solo UXera.

Jakob Nielsen

Oct 6
8 min

UX Vocabulary Inflation

UX suffers from constant reinvention of the terminology used to describe our concepts, leading to confusion, miscommunication, and rework.

UX in Latin America: Fast Growth, But Challenges Remain

Jakob Nielsen

Sep 29
10 min

UX in Latin America: Fast Growth, But Challenges Remain

What's driving UX in Latin America? UX trajectory, focusing on Brazil, industry maturity, job markets, and educational and language gaps.

Jakob Nielsen

Sep 13
12 min

UX Angst of 2023

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

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

Jakob Nielsen

Sep 4
10 min

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

Jakob Nielsen

Aug 28
5 min

UX News Roundup for August 28

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

UX Portfolio Reviews and Hiring Exercises in the Age of Generative AI

Jakob Nielsen

Aug 16
9 min

UX Portfolio Reviews and Hiring Exercises in the Age of Generative AI

Job candidates must showcase AI skills in portfolios. Hiring managers must change recruiting to select applicants with combined UX/AI skills

High UX Salaries have Held Steady for 25 Years

Jakob Nielsen

Aug 11
6 min

High UX Salaries have Held Steady for 25 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.

The AI Revolution Won’t Cause Mass Unemployment

Jakob Nielsen

Jul 11
13 min

The AI Revolution Won’t Cause Mass Unemployment

Productivity gains from AI will obliterate many jobs, but people adapt and create new work. Humans always crave more, inventing new products

Generative AI Enhances Old Users’ Intellectual Performance Through Wise Winnowing

Jakob Nielsen

Jun 27
10 min

Generative AI Enhances Old Users’ Intellectual Performance Through Wise Winnowing

Juice the creative output of old knowledge workers with a wide range of AI-created ideas.

Jakob Nielsen

Jun 13
11 min

UX Needs a Sense of Urgency About AI

UX professionals must seize the AI career imperative or become irrelevant.

UX Angst of 2023

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

AI Vastly Improves Productivity for Business Users and Reduces Skill Gaps

AI Is First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years

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