

UX Roundup: Usability of AI “Skills” | UXR Job Listings | AI Comics Help Learning | Quick View | The AI Economy | Social Learning | Automated Ads
How AI “skills” are reused and other usability issues with skills | User research job listings for junior staff dry up, and senior staff need AI experience to be hired | Data comics generated with AI increase student learning | Quick view as a shortcut for seeing product info | The AI economy has $175 billion in revenue | AI use spreads from peers | Automatically creating advertisements based on a website

Jakob Nielsen
5 days ago26 min read


Metaphor in UX Design
UX metaphors help users learn new interfaces by transferring knowledge from familiar concepts. They bridge designers’ conceptual models with users’ mental models through analogical reasoning, mapping multiple attributes between source and target domains.

Jakob Nielsen
Aug 14, 202528 min read


UX Roundup: World Usability Day | Bits to Atoms | Doing vs. Learning | AI Denial
From bits to atoms: when do we get super-human robots? | Doing vs. learning with AI | Older managers in denial about AI progress

Jakob Nielsen
Nov 11, 20248 min read


4 Metaphors for Working with AI: Intern, Coworker, Teacher, Coach
Viewing AI as an eager but unskilled intern was appropriate in early 2023, but this metaphor is now too limiting for good AI use.

Jakob Nielsen
Sep 26, 202414 min read
