

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
Aug 12, 20247 min read


UX Roundup: AI Empathy | Submit Buttons | European Job Changes | Runway AI Video | Writing Questions for User Research | Leonardo Sold | Midjourney New Release
AI shows more empathy than human doctors | “Submit” considered harmful | Europe too slow for AI | Prompt AI for user research questions

Jakob Nielsen
Aug 5, 202411 min read


UX Roundup: UX Salaries Drop | Retain Talents | Logo Memorability | Nigeria | Midjourney Personalization | AI Investments
UX salaries down by 12% in a year | To retain top talents, assign them to experiment with AI

Jakob Nielsen
Jul 22, 202410 min read


UX Roundup: Survey Response Options | Ideogram | Deepfaking User Test Videos | AI IA | LDM = Large Design Model | Web History | AI Writes 10% of Science Papers
Discrete response options best measure users’ subjective satisfaction | Disguising test users | Shopify AI helps merchants' IA | LDM GenUI

Jakob Nielsen
Jul 8, 202410 min read


UX Roundup: UX Secrets | Figma AI | AI Style Variation | Dark AI | Respect for UX | User Research & AI | Claude 3.5
No secrets in UX | Figma GenUI | Image stylistic variations in generative AI | AI used for dark design | How to get respect for UX

Jakob Nielsen
Jul 1, 20249 min read


UX Roundup: UX Superhero | Pivot to AI-UX | Luma Dream Machine | Midjourney Niji | Apple AI | Leonardo Phoenix
When UX professionals gain superpowers | UX-STRAT conference pivots to AI-driven future | Luma Dream Machine generates better AI video

Jakob Nielsen
Jun 17, 20249 min read


Impact of Tokens on Image Generation
Removing and adding keywords in image prompting changes the generated images in unpredictable ways. Current prompt adherence is too weak.

Jakob Nielsen
May 23, 20244 min read


UX Roundup: Prompting for Music Styles | Combining AI Tools | Style Randomization
Summary: Music prompting harder than image prompting | Combining up to 8 different AI tools into a single task workflow | Midjourney...

Jakob Nielsen
May 20, 20247 min read


UX Roundup: Portfolio Without Experience | AI-UX Course | Jakob on UX Greece | Test with 5 Users | ImageGen Shootout
How to build a UX portfolio before getting your first UX job | Usability testing with 5 users: the comic strip

Jakob Nielsen
Mar 18, 20247 min read


UX Roundup: Ideogram Big Improvements | UX Apprentice | High School UX | Kindergarten UX | Self-Taught UX Designers
Ideogram 1.0 huge improvements in text rendering + image quality | You don’t need a university degree to do UX | Self-taught UX designers

Jakob Nielsen
Mar 4, 20248 min read


Curating AI-Generated Images
In an AI-saturated future, true design skill lies not in creation but in the art of choice. Case study: human judgment of 4 AI-generated pix

Jakob Nielsen
Jan 4, 202412 min read


Generating Persistent Characters: Still Too Difficult
Generative AI for images does not draw the same characters with the same appearance in different illustrations, as needed for personas.

Jakob Nielsen
Dec 15, 20234 min read


UX Roundup: 100K LinkedIn Followers | Jakob & ADPList | AI UI Beyond Chat | UX Writing & AI
How Jakob gained 100,000 followers on LinkedIn | AI model answers UX questions | Write like a machine, think like a human.

Jakob Nielsen
Dec 11, 20238 min read


UX Roundup: Live Tomorrow | Irrelevant User Research | Good Taste or Numbers | UX Business Impact
Wasting user research on low-value questions | Frame UX work for higher business impact | AI impact on the design profession: good taste

Jakob Nielsen
Dec 4, 20236 min read


UX Roundup: OpenAI Announcements | GitHub AI Keynote | Jakob’s Razor for UX | Midjourney Beta
UX hot take on OpenAI’s keynote announcements | Jakob’s Razor: don’t overcomplicate matters and start with a qualitative user test w 5 users

Jakob Nielsen
Nov 13, 20239 min read


UX Roundup: IDEO Cut in Half | Dall-E Characters | AI New UI Paradigm
Design firm IDEO cut half of staff since 2020 (most layoffs in 2023) | In analytics, define Overall Evaluation Criterion aligning w business

Jakob Nielsen
Nov 6, 20236 min read


UX Roundup: GenAI Visual Shootout | Incremental Gains | Citation Analysis | A Real Recession
GenAI Visual Shootout | Incremental Gains | Citation Analysis | A Real Recession

Jakob Nielsen
Oct 9, 20236 min read
