

UX Roundup: Size Matters | AI-UX Job Opening | Midjourney App | Urgency for UX in AI | Eye Contact
Summary: Visualize the size of objects on ecommerce product pages | Job Openings: UX Research Generative AI @ Microsoft | Midjourney’s...

Jakob Nielsen
Dec 18, 202310 min read


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

Jakob Nielsen
Dec 4, 20236 min read


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.

Jakob Nielsen
Dec 1, 20236 min read


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...

Jakob Nielsen
Nov 27, 20238 min read


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 27, 202310 min read


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 25, 202334 min read


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

Jakob Nielsen
Oct 18, 202315 min read


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 16, 20236 min read


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

Jakob Nielsen
Oct 6, 20238 min read


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 29, 202310 min read


UX Angst of 2023-24
The UX sky’s not falling; it’s reshaping. AI integration will facilitate a UX renaissance, while the profession’s growth shows viability.

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 13, 202313 min read


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

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 4, 202310 min read


UX News Roundup for August 28
UX News Roundup: A collection of recommended links with comments.

Jakob Nielsen
Aug 28, 20235 min read


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

Jakob Nielsen
Aug 16, 20239 min read


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

Jakob Nielsen
Jul 11, 202313 min read


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 27, 202310 min read


UX Needs a Sense of Urgency About AI
UX professionals must seize the AI career imperative or become irrelevant.

Jakob Nielsen
Jun 13, 202312 min read
