

2025 Year in Review: Themes, Trends, Status, Top 10 Articles
Summary: AI disrupted UX practice across multiple vectors: research methodology, interface ontology, temporal dynamics, economic structures, and distribution channels. UX professionals must reconceptualize their discipline from artifact-centric design toward orchestrating intent-driven systems while cultivating individual agency as the primary professional competency. (Nano Banana Pro) I published about 330,000 words across 100 articles on UX Tigers in 2025 (including this
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 18, 202533 min read


UX Roundup: AI Job Losses for Young Staff | Founder Mode | Learn AI-First Design | Secondary Research | Comparing Avatar Tools
AI’s impact on job prospects for junior vs. senior employees | Founder Mode | Learn AI-First design | Secondary user research | Comparing avatars animated with HeyGen and Chinese AI tool Wan
Jakob Nielsen
Sep 8, 202513 min read


UX Career Pivot for the AI Age: Told in Manga by 4 Different AI Models
4 AI models competed to use the Manga comic book format to tell the story of how to pivot your AI career for AI. See which manga you like the best. All succeeded in condensing a long theoretical article into a few engaging pages, reducing the word count by 94%.
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 17, 20253 min read


How to Develop Agency: The Number-One Career Skill for the AI Age
Cultivate your ability to effect change actively rather than reacting passively. Human agency with the courage to do something new, without being told, will separate the designers of the future from the assembly-line workers of the past, and the empowered learner from the spoon-fed student.
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 10, 202516 min read


UX Roundup: UX Unicorns | Captcha Must Die | Flow in UX | Dark Design | Avatar Animation
Herds of UX unicorns | Captcha Must Die | Supporting the Flow state | If it feels like dark design, it probably is | HeyGen’s Avatar IV worked better with a photorealistic avatar than a cartoon character
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 7, 20258 min read


Use the AI Transition Period to Transition Your Career
Summary: In the great UX pivot, you have 5 years to trade yesterday’s expertise for tomorrow’s relevance. Legacy UX skills won’t save you...
Jakob Nielsen
Jun 19, 20258 min read
