UX Roundup: Graph UI vs. Chat | Linear UI for Stories | Reusing Past Alternatives | Fast Wins | Mental Models | AI as Tool or Coworker | Sticky Navigation
Graph-based UI for AI is better than linear chat for design tasks | Storytelling improves with a keyframing UI | With a better history UI, clients reused a designer’s past alternatives 2.6× as often as they generated new material | Fast wins make users stay | Mental models: the map in the user’s head always wins | Users hold only 2 mental models of AI: tool or coworker | Sticky navigation gives users a firm foundation but consumes pixels
Jakob Nielsen
6 days ago18 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
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
4 Degrees of Anthropomorphism in Using AI
People often treat an AI as another person at different degrees of fidelity. Anthropomorphism serves as a cognitive bridge to understand AI.
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 23, 20235 min read