

UX Roundup: Usability Halloween | Score Secondary Research | AI UI Ideas | Heuristic Evaluation with AI
Summary : Usability Halloween | Study Similarity Score to assess the relevance of secondary research | 23 design ideas to improve AI UI | Using AI to conduct heuristic evaluation UX Roundup for October 27, 2025. (Seedream 4) Usability Halloween Costume Dress up as a usability expert this Halloween ! I made a short video (YouTube, 3 min.) with Sora 2 and Veo 3 to show what kids think of this idea. (Spoiler: They like it, but then all these kids were generated by my prompts.) H
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 2712 min read


AI Storytelling: Aesthetic and Minimalist Design (Usability Heuristic 8)
Summary: Â A storybook that metaphorically explains minimalist design through pictures and a story. Storytelling is more memorable and...
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 74 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: 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


The 10 Usability Heuristics in Cartoons
Finally, what you have been waiting for: a humorous take on Jakob Nielsen’s classic 10 usability heuristics explained in 80 cartoons.
Jakob Nielsen
Jun 513 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
