

UX Roundup: AI Agents Change Workflows | User Expertise and Agentic AI | Controlling AI Complexity | Constraints | Meta Muse Image | Seedream 5 Pro | Image-Model Shootout | GPT 5.6 Sol
AI agents expand user tasks | Agentic AI makes expertise more valuable, not less | Users need control over the complexity of AI results | Constraints help users | Meta launched a new image model, Muse Image | ByteDance upgrades its image model to Seedream 5 Pro | Comparing the leading image models | GPT receives a major upgrade to v. 5.6 Sol

Jakob Nielsen
Jul 1330 min read


Progressive Disclosure: From Training Wheels to Week-Long AI Agents
Progressive disclosure puts the few features that serve most tasks on the first screen and defers the rest to a clearly labeled second level. The pattern has 4 decades of evidence behind it: novices learn faster and err less, while experts pay 1 click. It’s about to matter more than ever, because AI answers and long-running agents need layered revealing even more than settings screens do.

Jakob Nielsen
Jul 913 min read


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 27, 202512 min read


Error Message Usability
Jakob Nielsen’s usability heuristic 9: Help Users Recognize, Diagnose, and Recover from Errors.

Jakob Nielsen
Jan 28, 20255 min read


3 Generations of Experience Technology
Summary: Past, present, and future user experience: lean-back, lean-forward, and be-inside. A combination of AI and gaming will create a...

Jakob Nielsen
Jul 18, 20243 min read


Time Scales of UX: From 0.1 Seconds to 100 Years
UX unfolds over time, with a factor of 31 billion from the shortest time period of interest (0.1 seconds) to a century for social change.

Jakob Nielsen
Jan 24, 20248 min read


The Need for Speed in AI
AI needs much faster response time to meet human demands, which remain unaltered from previous UI paradigms.

Jakob Nielsen
Aug 2, 20239 min read
