

UX Roundup: AI Empathy | Transparency About Compute Limits | UI Modes | Seedream 4.5 | AI In/Out of Silicon Valley | Kling Speaks
Summary : AI exhibits better empathy than human clinicians | Compute limits should be made transparent in the user experience | User interface modes usually lower usability | Seedream 4.5 image model now with improved text rendering | How feasible is it to build an AI company outside Silicon Valley | The Kling video model now generates speaking characters UX Roundup for December 8, 2025. (Nano Banana Pro) Creation by Discovery New music video about how creators explore the la

Jakob Nielsen
6 days ago15 min read


UX Roundup: Email UX | Sora 2 | AI New Business Capabilities | AI Consumer Surplus | Latent Affordances | Ambient Clinical AI
Summary : Email user experience | New video model Sora 2 compared with older models | AI offering new business capabilities instead of...

Jakob Nielsen
Oct 614 min read


UX Roundup: GPT 5 | AI in Education | UXR Repositories | AI Cannibalization | Map vs. Territory | Patients and AI vs. Doctors | AI Speed | User Test Methodology
GPT 5 put to the test: Explain UXD and UXR to a 5-year-old | AI in Education | AI makes repositories of old user research findings more useful | AI summaries cannibalize clickthrough from web searches | The journey map is not the territory of user actions | Patients reveal more to clinical AI than when talking with human physicians | Response time matters for AI usability | Leading the participants in a usability study

Jakob Nielsen
Aug 1118 min read


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: Simplicity | Error Prevention | Educational AI | Heuristic Evaluation with AI | AI 4x Better at Medical Diagnosis | Grok 4 and AI Prices | AI Video
The Simplicity Poof | Error prevention explained by Vikings | AI in education | Heuristic Evaluation with AI | UX career pivot | AI was 4x better than human doctors at diagnosing complex cases | Grok 4 sets new record for AI subscription pricing | Advances in AI Video

Jakob Nielsen
Jul 1414 min read


UX Roundup: Developers Outrace UX | AI Traffic Safety | Dovetail Conference | Usability Poster | RIP Prompt Engineering | Comparing 6 Image Models
Developers outracing UX because of AI acceleration | AI is 5x times safer than humans when driving cars | Usability poster | Prompt engineering no longer a viable job

Jakob Nielsen
May 513 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 2412 min read


UX Roundup: Outpacing Human Aging | Animating Paintings | Domain-Specific UX | Bad AI Video | Top Avatars Vary by Platform | Search Research | o3-mini
Tech advances outpace human aging | Specializing in design for a target domain | The best-performing Avatars vary by social-media platform

Jakob Nielsen
Feb 313 min read


UX Roundup: Poor AI Performance Conversing with Patients | AI Character Mashups | 2025 AI Trends | Accelerating Science | AI Progression
AI does worse than human doctors when eliciting clinical information in conversations with patients | AI mashups of famous characters

Jakob Nielsen
Jan 1311 min read


UX Roundup: Sora: Not Impressed | AI Startups Growth | Hiring Staff with AI Skills | 150K LinkedIn Followers | AI Training on YouTube | Apple Intelligence Useless | Dr. AI | New o3 model
AI Startups Growth | Hiring Staff with AI Skills | Apple Intelligence Useless | Dr. AI | New o3 model

Jakob Nielsen
Dec 23, 202412 min read


UX Roundup: Jakob Live | Reducing Extreme Poverty | Training with AI Agents | Healthcare Leapfrogging | Human vs AI Doctors | AI Leaderboard
Progress in reducing extreme poverty | AI Agents as training aides | Will AI finally leapfrog healthcare delivery?

Jakob Nielsen
Oct 3, 202411 min read


UX Roundup: AI @ Moderna | Neopets Lives | UX of Empty Fields | AI Health Care | Jakob’s Office Behind the Scenes | Jakob Live This Wednesday | Mentorship
Moderna goes all-in on AI use | Neopets revived after 20 years: pets still live | Improving the usability of empty-state areas in a UI

Jakob Nielsen
May 13, 20247 min read


AI Companions: Good or Bad for Users?
AI companions are a killer app because users like that their AI friend is non-judgmental, always there, kind, and agreeable.

Jakob Nielsen
Oct 4, 20236 min read
