

UX Roundup: Image Models Compared | Writing for the Web | AI vs. Human Cognition | E-Commerce Usability | Multimodal Music Models
Summary : New Image Models: Microsoft MAI-Image-1 vs. Grok Image 0.9 | Writing digital content: Julius Caesar as a role model | Should AI mimic human cognition? | AI helps e-commerce sell more | AI singers understand the lyrics UX Roundup for November 17, 2025. (GPT Image-1) New Image Models: Microsoft MAI-Image-1 vs. Grok Image 0.9 Microsoft has released a new text-to-image model on www.bing.com/create , called MAI-Image-1. I tested it with the same prompt I had used with
Jakob Nielsen
Nov 17, 202513 min read


UX Roundup: Corkboard Mockup | Loss-Making Promos | AI Movie | Video-to-Music | Mainstream AI | Young Staff Loves AI | Nano Banana | Emotional Speech Model
Corkboard mockup of project history | Are promotions profitable or not? | Making a short AI film | Auto-creating music based on a video | AI is becoming the norm for online shoppers in the United States | High AI adoption among entry-level employees in poor and middle-income countries | Google’s new Nano Banana image editing model | Microsoft releases T2V model that generates emotional speech
Jakob Nielsen
Sep 1, 202513 min read


Top 10 UI Annoyances
Summary: Users encounter usability annoyances daily in their computer use. Sometimes annoyances can be sidestepped at the cost of extra...
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 24, 202532 min read


Required Fields in Forms: Best Design Practices
Summary : Form design should minimize required fields, collecting only essential data. High-friction fields like phone numbers and...
Jakob Nielsen
Jun 26, 20259 min read


UX Roundup: AI Image Consistency | Speak the User’s Language | Business Use of AI | The Exam Is Not the Education | Caption Contest
Consistency vs. exploration in AI image design | Speak the user’s language | Strong Growth in Business AI Use | The exam is not the education | The funniest cartoon captions by humans and AI
Jakob Nielsen
May 19, 202510 min read


UX Roundup: Design Metrics | Users Don’t Like to Read | Kids and Dark Design | Chinese Design | Single Name Field | Stop CAPTCHA | Nuclear Google
Design metrics that measure user value | Users don’t like to read | Children’s awareness of dark design patterns | Why Chinese design looks
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 21, 20248 min read
