

UX Roundup: AI Judgment | Heuristic Evaluation | Consistent Brand Assets | New Music Model
Summary : AI judgment may follow a scaling law | Scaling AI’s judgment of usability heuristics | Generating consistent visual design assets with AI | New AI music model: Mureka O2 UX Roundup for February 2, 2026. (Nano Banana Pro) AI Judgment May Follow a Scaling Law The “bitter lesson” just became more bitter for those humans who still believe in meatware supremacy and their “unique” ability to have “taste” or judgment about what’s best among the ceaseless AI creations. A

Jakob Nielsen
Feb 29 min read


The Year in Image Generation
Summary: For each month of 2025, here is the best image I made that month. The collection shows the progress of AI-generated images over the year, in terms of the complexity of imagery that creators can now attempt. I used 5 different image tools to create the winning pictures, using GPT Image-1 the most. (Nano Banana Pro) 2025 made one thing clear: image rendering is no longer the hard part. Editorial selection is. When you can generate dozens of plausible variations in a

Jakob Nielsen
Dec 28, 202511 min read


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
Dec 8, 202515 min read


Nano Banana Pro is the “ChatGPT Moment” for Visual Communication
Summary: Google's Nano Banana Pro takes AI image generation mainstream, making professional visual communication accessible to everyone. Integrating with Gemini 3 Pro's reasoning engine, it creates professional infographics, comic strips, and visual resumes instantly. While imperfect, with occasional typos, excessive verbosity, and generic default styling, it outperforms competitors for practical applications. This advancement will transform how we explain complex informati

Jakob Nielsen
Nov 28, 202512 min read


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: Forward Deployed Engineers | AI GUI Controls | Apple Liquid Glass UI | User Testing Explained
Summary : Forward Deployed Engineers are the new user researchers | Reve has GUI controls for AI image editing | Apple Liquid Glass UI...

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 22, 202512 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


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 4, 202514 min read


UX Roundup: UX in the Street | AI Video | Infinite Scroll | Simplicity vs. Features | Logo as Coin | AI Blooper | Midjourney Animation
Street interview video about the consistency heuristic | AI auto-generates full videos | Infinite scrolling is a usability quagmire to avoid | Simplicity vs. features

Jakob Nielsen
Jun 23, 202512 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: 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 5, 202513 min read


UX Roundup: Adapt or Die | Image Style Explorations | Usability Tarot | AI Compute Growth | Auto Slides | Usability Video Game | Logo Styles
Adapt or Die | Image style explorations | Making a custom Tarot card | AI training compute grows 2.5x per year | Converting an article into slides with AI | Usability Hunt video game | Logo style variations

Jakob Nielsen
Apr 28, 20256 min read


UX Roundup: UI vs. UX | Content Con | AI Avoids Traffic Accidents | AI Poetry | Direct vs. Indirect Prompting | Image Gen Progress
UI vs. UX | AI reduces traffic injuries | AI Poetry | Direct vs. Indirect Prompting | Image Gen Progress

Jakob Nielsen
Apr 14, 20258 min read


UX Roundup: AI as General-Purpose or Cultural Tech | AI for Teamwork | Jakob’s Law Manga | 3 Ages of UX | Action Figure
Is AI general-purpose technology or a cultural force | AI boosts teamwork | Jakob’s Law as a manga | 3 ages of UX | Usability action figure

Jakob Nielsen
Apr 7, 20258 min read


UX Roundup: Modest UX Salary Drop | Reasoning Scaling Law | AI Task Scope Grows | Customer Journey Management | 3 New Image Generators
Reasoning model scaling law confirmed | AI task scope doubles every 7 Months | Customer journey management

Jakob Nielsen
Mar 31, 202510 min read


UX Roundup: 20K Subscribers | Voice Sound vs Character | Voice UI for Old Users | CoT Explaining AI | Ideogram Release 2a | Easy Avatars | Track AI in Analytics | Gemini Images
Newsletter subscribers | Voice sound vs character | Voice UI for old users | Does chain-of-thought help users form mental models of AI?

Jakob Nielsen
Mar 17, 202515 min read


Top 10 UX Images of 2024
Summary : These are the best images published in Jakob Nielsen’s articles during 2024. Three different AI image-generating tools were...

Jakob Nielsen
Dec 26, 20244 min read


UX Roundup: Designing AI Voices | AI Narrows Skill Gaps | New Music Video | Talk to Santa | Misadventures in Image Prompting | Bezos 95% AI | Multi-Tool AI Workflow | AI-UX Jobs
Emotional intent in AI voices | AI narrows skill gaps | Combining multiple AI tools into a single workflow | 13 AI-UX job openings Microsoft

Jakob Nielsen
Dec 16, 20249 min read


UX Roundup: AI Follow-Up Questions in Usability Studies | Top UX Evaluation Methods | AI Use in UX | Keep Users in the Flow | New Grok Image Model
Summary : AI can ask follow-up questions in usability sessions | The top 3 UX evaluation methods | AI use in UX | New hybrid UI for AI...

Jakob Nielsen
Dec 11, 202410 min read


UX Roundup: OpenAI Canvas | Evaluating AI Video | AI Podcast | AI Translation | AI Adoption & Retention | Flux 1.1
OpenAI Canvas heralds hybrid UI for AI | Evaluating AI video models in pairwise quality comparisons | AI-created podcast | AI translation

Jakob Nielsen
Oct 7, 202411 min read
