

2025 Year in Review: Themes, Trends, Status, Top 10 Articles
Summary: AI disrupted UX practice across multiple vectors: research methodology, interface ontology, temporal dynamics, economic structures, and distribution channels. UX professionals must reconceptualize their discipline from artifact-centric design toward orchestrating intent-driven systems while cultivating individual agency as the primary professional competency. (Nano Banana Pro) I published about 330,000 words across 100 articles on UX Tigers in 2025 (including this
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 18, 202533 min read


UX Roundup: How People Use AI | AI Does User Research | Founding Designers | Prompt Engineering | AI Agent Use Cases | Electricity Fuels AI | GPT 5.2 Beats Humans
Summary : How People Use AI for professional and creative jobs | AI conducts user interviews at scale, converting qualitative quotes to quant data | When and how to hire the first designer in a startup company | Prompt engineering debunked: Don’t specify a mastery persona | Longitudinal user research needed to judge AI agent usability | A new generation of power turbines may meet the need for AI electricity | GPT 5.2 132% better than human experts on economically valuable tas
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 15, 202520 min read


UX Roundup: Developers Outrace UX | AI Traffic Safety | Dovetail Conference | Usability Poster | RIP Prompt Engineering | Comparing 6 Image Models
Developers outracing UX because of AI acceleration | AI is 5x times safer than humans when driving cars | Usability poster | Prompt engineering no longer a viable job
Jakob Nielsen
May 5, 202513 min read


UX Roundup: UI vs. UX | Content Con | AI Avoids Traffic Accidents | AI Poetry | Direct vs. Indirect Prompting | Image Gen Progress
UI vs. UX | AI reduces traffic injuries | AI Poetry | Direct vs. Indirect Prompting | Image Gen Progress
Jakob Nielsen
Apr 14, 20258 min read


Aided Prompt Understanding: UX Design Patterns to Build AI Prompting Skills
AI won’t reach its full potential until people better understand how to work with it, but most people have no idea how their AI prompt works
Jakob Nielsen
Apr 10, 20258 min read


Prompt Augmentation: UX Design Patterns for Better AI Prompting
Design patterns to overcome the AI articulation barrier: Style Galleries, Prompt Rewrite, Targeted Prompt Rewrite, Related Prompts, Prompt B
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 27, 202517 min read
