

UX Roundup: Designers in Denial | 3 Levels of Corporate AI Use | AI Improves Medical Diagnosis | AI Math | Ideogram Character Consistency | Bad Study Methodology
Many UX designers are still in denial about AI | The 3 different types of AI use in companies, and their implications for your career | AI does mathematics differently than humans

Jakob Nielsen
Aug 414 min read


UX Roundup: UXR Theater | App Overload | Less Is More | Illustrations vs. Photos | Problem vs. Solution | Centralized AI | Recognition vs Recall | Google Growth | Sovereign AI | Agentic Browsers
Summary : Usability testing as theater | Too many applications | Less Is More | Illustrations vs. photos | Love the problem, not your...

Jakob Nielsen
Jul 2811 min read


UX Roundup: ChatGPT Agent | Opportunities Change Behavior | Breadcrumbs | UX Career Pivot | Make Viral Thumbnails | Startups Driven by AI | Enterprise Use of AI | Design Thinking | UX Jobs
New tech capabilities create the opportunity for people to do new things | Breadcrumbs | Use ChatGPT image mode to create viral thumbnails | Startup companies increasingly being driven by AI | Enterprise AI | Changing from design thinking to design doing

Jakob Nielsen
Jul 2113 min read


Learn UX Strategy & Business Alignment: A 10-Week Plan
Summary: 10 weeks’ worth of reading materials and exercises to understand how to align UX work with business strategy and product goals,...

Jakob Nielsen
Jun 1234 min read


The Usability Scaling Law: Death of User Testing?
Training AI on large volumes of user research data may scale up its ability to predict usability problems and create better designs in the first place. This could change the balance between predictive usability and observational usability.

Jakob Nielsen
May 1513 min read


Does User-Driven Design Still Need User-Centered Design?
Vibe coding places users in control of digital functionality. AI enables rapid, inexpensive design, so UX professionals must pivot.

Jakob Nielsen
Mar 1314 min read


Vibe Coding and Vibe Design
AI transforms software development and UX design through natural language intent specification, accelerating prototyping & redefining roles.

Jakob Nielsen
Mar 713 min read


UX Roundup: OpenAI Product Roadmap | Parallel and Iterative AI Use | Virtual Boyfriends | Jakob in SF | Dropdown Menus | Early GUI | AI Urgency | Perplexity Deep Research
Parallel and iterative use of AI improves quality outcomes | Dropdowns must die | Early GUI prototypes | UX needs more urgency about AI

Jakob Nielsen
Feb 1713 min read


UX Roundup: Jakob Keynote Video | University Courses | 8 Uses of AI for UX Design | Museum Usability
Full video from Oslo keynote | Promising university courses | Main uses of AI in the UX design process | Museum usability

Jakob Nielsen
Nov 18, 20249 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


(Experimentation + Iteration + Testing) × Learning = Great UX
Exploration, refinement, and evaluation are keystones of exceptional user experience design. Repeated cycles of design trials max the result

Jakob Nielsen
Jun 13, 20244 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


Diamond Prompting in UX Work
The dual prompting approach in AI-driven UX design distinguishes between exploratory and detail-refining phases.

Jakob Nielsen
Apr 25, 202411 min read


UX Roundup: Collaborative AI Workflow | New Music Service | Clear > Clever | Team Skill Hackathon | AI-Driven KPI
Leonardo support for collaborative AI workflow in UX design | Clear beats clever in UX | Hackathon to grow team skills | AI-enabled KPIs

Jakob Nielsen
Apr 12, 20248 min read


Top AI Tools Used by UX Professionals
UX professionals used 93 different AI tools: 12 UX-specific AI tools were fairly popular. Low overlap in popular AI between UX & the public

Jakob Nielsen
Mar 27, 202417 min read


Embrace AI’s Uncertainty in UX
AI’s probabilistic nature changes all areas of user experience, impacting users, UX researchers, and designers.

Jakob Nielsen
Mar 6, 20246 min read


Curating AI-Generated Images
In an AI-saturated future, true design skill lies not in creation but in the art of choice. Case study: human judgment of 4 AI-generated pix

Jakob Nielsen
Jan 4, 202412 min read


Rebirth of the UX Unicorn?
Summary: UX professionals who are good at all steps of the UX lifecycle, including both research and design, are called “UX unicorns”...

Jakob Nielsen
Dec 20, 20237 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


User Experience in Two Infographics
Two short infographics define UX and summarize why and how to run UX projects. Show to your boss or colleagues who don’t understand UX.

Jakob Nielsen
Nov 17, 20231 min read