

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


When Humans Add Negative Value: AI Alone vs. Human–AI Synergy
Summary: The prevailing “human in the loop” paradigm for AI use must die or be drastically reduced. In many cases, human involvement already degrades AI performance, especially in analytical tasks. Creative fields still benefit from the positive synergistic effects of human-AI collaboration, but as AI improves, the scope for human involvement will likely shrink. Humans must move up the food chain to exhibit agency and strategic management, while letting superior AI systems o
Jakob Nielsen
Nov 6, 202532 min read


A New AI: Creation as Exploration and Discovery
Summary: AI transforms UX into exploration-based discovery. Users will navigate latent solution spaces rather than specifying outcomes. Creation shifts from building or describing to discovering possibilities. Future interfaces become collaborative playgrounds where users recognize solutions instead of articulating visions, augmenting human existence. For a fun summary of this article: Watch my music video Creation by Discovery: Navigating Latent Design Space (YouTube, 5 mi
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 21, 202516 min read


UX Roundup: AI Panic | Progress Indicators | Reversing Idea Flow | AI-Native Companies | Fake AI Research
GUI panic vs. AI panic | Progress bars and percent-done indicators | Reversing the sequence between idea and result | AI-native companies rethink workflows | Fake research: MIT retracts AI creativity paper
Jakob Nielsen
Jun 2, 20257 min read


UX Roundup: Users Not at Table | Usability Taglines | Creating > Consuming | 100% AI-Created Video
Only stakeholders not at the meeting table? Users | Criteria for good taglines | Creating with AI is more rewarding than passive content consumption | AI creates and edits a complete video on its own
Jakob Nielsen
May 26, 202512 min read


UX Roundup: Film Festival | AI Therapy | AI Radiology | AI Creative Writing | Grok 3
AI film festival | AI as good as human therapists | AI beats human radiologists | AI Creative Writing Test | Grok 3 launched
Jakob Nielsen
Feb 24, 202512 min read
