

UX Roundup: AI Judgment | Heuristic Evaluation | Consistent Brand Assets | New Music Model
Summary : AI judgment may follow a scaling law | Scaling AI’s judgment of usability heuristics | Generating consistent visual design assets with AI | New AI music model: Mureka O2 UX Roundup for February 2, 2026. (Nano Banana Pro) AI Judgment May Follow a Scaling Law The “bitter lesson” just became more bitter for those humans who still believe in meatware supremacy and their “unique” ability to have “taste” or judgment about what’s best among the ceaseless AI creations. A

Jakob Nielsen
Feb 29 min read


UX Roundup: Creativity for Old Users | Conflicting AI Goals | Automated Social Campaigns | Digital Storytelling | Valuable Music
Summary : AI helps old users stay creative | Microsoft, Google, and our AI Future | Automatically generate on-brand campaigns | AI-created digital storytelling is worth $2 billion | AI music valued even higher than AI slides UX Roundup for November 24, 2025. (Nano Banana Pro) Happy Thanksgiving (Seedream 4) Happy Thanksgiving from UX Tigers and Jakob Nielsen! I made a short song with my mascot tiger celebrating Thanksgiving , combining animations from Seedance Pro 1, Grok Ima

Jakob Nielsen
Nov 24, 202517 min read


UX Roundup: Modest UX Salary Drop | Reasoning Scaling Law | AI Task Scope Grows | Customer Journey Management | 3 New Image Generators
Reasoning model scaling law confirmed | AI task scope doubles every 7 Months | Customer journey management

Jakob Nielsen
Mar 31, 202510 min read


UX Roundup: Explainer Videos | AI Overload | AI Music | Over-Recuiting | Home Robots | GPT 4.5
AI stigma & SEO explainer videos | Overwhelmed by AI progress | AI music improves | Overrecruiting study participants to account for no-show

Jakob Nielsen
Mar 3, 202510 min read


AI Hallucinations on the Decline
Early AI proclaimed many falsehoods, but such hallucinations are getting fewer with modern AI products. Larger models hallucinate less.

Jakob Nielsen
Feb 13, 20258 min read


AI Scaling Laws 4 & 5: More Engineers and Designers
The first 3 AI scaling laws say that increasing machine resources boosts intelligence. The next two scaling laws hinge on more humans.

Jakob Nielsen
Feb 7, 202511 min read


DeepSeek: Does a Small AI Model Invalidate Big Models?
In several challenges, the new Chinese AI model DeepSeek R1 performed at the level expected of the best current-generation U.S. AI models.

Jakob Nielsen
Jan 30, 202512 min read


The Decade of AI Super-Acceleration
AI's rapid advancement is caused by 3 factors: raw compute, algorithmic efficiency, and "unhobbling." Result: 10,000x AI boost every 4 year

Jakob Nielsen
Jul 10, 20248 min read
