

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 16, 20249 min read


Design Leaders Should Go “Founder Mode”
The future of design leadership is not to aspire to ever-higher executive roles. Embrace “Founder Mode" hands-on and vision-based leadership

Jakob Nielsen
Nov 21, 20246 min read


UX Roundup: AI Camera | Web Design Mistakes | UX Job Openings
Directing the AI camera for emotional impact | Web design mistakes the same as ever | UX job openings: equal numbers for senior and junior

Jakob Nielsen
Nov 4, 20248 min read


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.

Jakob Nielsen
Aug 29, 20245 min read


UX Roundup: Why a Tiger? | Design Conference | AI Help Info | UX Degree or Keep Working? | AI Disinflation | IIT Top | AI Filmmaking | Hotshot AI Video
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 26, 202410 min read


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.

Jakob Nielsen
Aug 22, 20247 min read


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
Aug 8, 20246 min read


UX Roundup: UX Salaries Drop | Retain Talents | Logo Memorability | Nigeria | Midjourney Personalization | AI Investments
UX salaries down by 12% in a year | To retain top talents, assign them to experiment with AI

Jakob Nielsen
Jul 22, 202410 min read


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.

Jakob Nielsen
Jul 16, 20246 min read


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?

Jakob Nielsen
Jul 3, 202410 min read


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 27, 20247 min read


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 9, 202417 min read


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.

Jakob Nielsen
May 2, 20247 min read


UX Roundup: Luxury Usability | User Testing, the Movie | AI = Ozempic | Better Analytics | Job Hunt Advice | Design Similarity
Summary: Luxury websites have bad usability | Poster fail: User testing, the movie | AI is Ozempic for the company | Is Microsoft Clarity...

Jakob Nielsen
Apr 29, 20248 min read


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.

Jakob Nielsen
Apr 10, 20248 min read


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 18, 20247 min read


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.

Jakob Nielsen
Mar 8, 20246 min read


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

Jakob Nielsen
Mar 4, 20248 min read


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
Feb 26, 20246 min read


43 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!

Jakob Nielsen
Jan 17, 202413 min read
