

UX Roundup: AI Panic | Progress Indicators | Reversing Idea Flow | AI-Native Companies | Fake AI Research
GUI panic vs. AI panic | Progress bars and percent-done indicators | Reversing the sequence between idea and result | AI-native companies rethink workflows | Fake research: MIT retracts AI creativity paper

Jakob Nielsen
Jun 27 min read


Knobs, Dials, and UX: Reimagining Digital Services as Tangible Devices
Gain a fresh perspective on well-known products and UX influencers by reimagining them in a completely different format: as physical devices. Converting abstract pixels into palpable hardware revitalizes your thinking and is a powerful catalyst for ideation.

Jakob Nielsen
May 295 min read


AI’s Role in Human-AI Symbiosis: Originator or Refiner
It is cheaper to let AI take the initiative in human–AI collaborations where it generates a range of initial ideas for humans to winnow.

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 6, 20237 min read


Classic Usability Important for AI
AI products are fraught with basic usability errors, violating decades-old UX findings. Simple fixes will save AI users much pain.

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 1, 20238 min read


Ideation Is Free: AI Exhibits Strong Creativity, But AI-Human Co-Creation Is Better
12 research studies confirm that AI’s creativity surpasses humans in sheer idea abundance. Yet human-AI co-creation performs even better.

Jakob Nielsen
Aug 18, 202321 min read


AI Is More Creative Than 99% of Humans — on One Metric
AI overwhelmingly surpasses humans at creative ideation, at least in the idea-producing stage of the diverge-converge model.

Jakob Nielsen
Aug 9, 202311 min read