UX Roundup: GPT 5 | AI in Education | UXR Repositories | AI Cannibalization | Map vs. Territory | Patients and AI vs. Doctors | AI Speed | User Test Methodology
GPT 5 put to the test: Explain UXD and UXR to a 5-year-old | AI in Education | AI makes repositories of old user research findings more useful | AI summaries cannibalize clickthrough from web searches | The journey map is not the territory of user actions | Patients reveal more to clinical AI than when talking with human physicians | Response time matters for AI usability | Leading the participants in a usability study
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 1118 min read
UX Roundup: Field Observation of Sticky Notes | Performative Privacy | Response Time Delays | Jakob Fireside Session | Content Supremacy
Users posting sticky note reminders = bad usability | Performative privacy vs. practical privacy | Response time delays: Endlessly watching the spinner
Jakob Nielsen
Jun 3011 min read
UX Roundup: AI Panic | Progress Indicators | Reversing Idea Flow | AI-Native Companies | Fake AI Research
GUI panic vs. AI panic | Progress bars and percent-done indicators | Reversing the sequence between idea and result | AI-native companies rethink workflows | Fake research: MIT retracts AI creativity paper
Jakob Nielsen
Jun 27 min read
UX Roundup: AI Editing | Speaking This Week | Bad Innovation | Faster Midjourney | Feeling Less Rushed | Improving International Collaboration | OpenAI o1
From AI generation to AI editing | Innovation can be harmful | Is Midjourney getting faster? | AI may make workers feel less time pressure
Jakob Nielsen
Sep 16, 202411 min read
UX Roundup: Perceived Speed | AI Ideation | Deterministic vs. Probabilistic UX | McKinsey AI | No-Scroll Google | AI Imposter Syndrome
Perceived fast response times improve the user experience | Many ideas in no time from AI | Deterministic UI vs. probabilistic AI UX
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 15, 20247 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