

UX Roundup: Generation Alpha UX | Personas | Sentient Design | UX Hero: Tom Landauer | Auto-Generated Thumbnails | AI Shorts | RIP Rufus | Fable 5
Gen Alpha is not mini-Gen-Z | Personas as Packaged Software | Sentient Design is a new book about AI as a design material | My hero: Dr. Thomas K. Landauer of Bell Labs/Bellcore | YouTube’s Thumbnail Generator | Recommended AI short videos | Amazon changes the name of its AI shopping assistant from Rufus to Alexa | Claude Fable 5 released

Jakob Nielsen
Jun 1522 min read


Information Scent: How Users Decide Where to Click
Users follow scents of relevance. Navigation becomes intuitive. Content discoverable. Experience enhanced.

Jakob Nielsen
Jul 26, 20243 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: AI As General-Purpose Tech | AI Can Do Card Sorting | Mental Models | ChatGPT Lazy Fix | New Song
AI is a general-purpose technology that can double economic growth | Comparing human card sorting with AI categorization

Jakob Nielsen
Feb 5, 20249 min read
