Jakob Nielsen
Oct 21, 20248 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 14, 202410 min read
UX Roundup: AI in Mathematics | Mainstreaming Usability | Sparkles Emoji | Changing E-Commerce Guidelines | SFTechWeek Event
AI makes mathematics research more scalable | Usability enters the mainstream | Sparkles emoji as the icon for AI in user interfaces
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 19, 202412 min read
UX Roundup: Nagging UI Reminders | Typeface Manga | Little Tech | Form Fields | AI Conference | Midjourney IQ | Grok 2
Nagging UI reminders become a dark design pattern | Typeface manga | Number of fields on web forms | Image quality vs scene quality
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 12, 20247 min read
UX Roundup: Hindsight Bias | Rubric for Insightful AI | User-Contributed Photos | Black Forest AI
Stakeholders deem UX work to be “obvious” | Rubric for scoring insightful use of AI | Make it easy to see all user-contributed photos
Jakob Nielsen
Apr 29, 20248 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 22, 20248 min read
UX Roundup: GenUI Feeding & Design Systems | Autoformat Credit Card Numbers | Systems Thinking | Top Companies by Geo | Dovetail AI | Jakob Keynote | Llama 3
Generative UI benefits from design systems | Autoformat credit card numbers as chunks | Systems thinking
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 26, 20243 min read
Specification Lists Have Terrible Usability
Dissecting the anatomy of specification sheets on ecommerce platforms. Using Amazon as a case study to illustrate common pitfalls.
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 18, 202310 min read
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 6, 20239 min read
Dark Design Patterns Catalog
India outlawed 12 common dark design patterns. These sneaky practices are unethical applications of established UX knowledge to harm users.
Jakob Nielsen
Nov 27, 20238 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 22, 20237 min read
Photos Improve Website Usability and Credibility
Strong photography conveys information with authenticity, fostering trust in the content provided on a website.
Jakob Nielsen
Sep 18, 20237 min read
UX News: Winning UX Tools | Error Messages | Showing Payment Options | Virtual Girlfriend
Award-Winning AI-Enabled UX Design & Research Tools You Need to Try | Flow chart for better error messages | Alternate payment options
Jakob Nielsen
Sep 11, 20238 min read
UX News: Discount Envy | AI for All | GUI Toggle Design | Tradeshow User Research | Lightweight UI
Coupon-code fields make ecommerce shoppers green with discount envy | Guidelines for toggle switch design | User research at tradeshows
Jakob Nielsen
Jun 21, 202311 min read
Is Amazon.com Guilty of Dark UX Patterns? Jakob Nielsen’s Hot Take on the FTC Lawsuit
UX analysis of the FTC lawsuit accusing Amazon.com of employing dark design patterns in its subscribe and unsubscribe workflows.