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: AI Music | Humans Impolite to AI | Subscriptions vs. Social Media | AI vs. Search
Summary : Experimenting with same song in different genres | Humans impolite to AI, which needs to be reflected in training data | Subscriptions beat social media for insightful content | AI answers beat search UX Roundup for November 10, 2025. (Seedream 4) Two New Music Genres I remade my opera about direct manipulation (YouTube, 4 min.) in two modern music genres: Jazz song about direct manipulation (YouTube, 3 min.) Rock song about direct manipulation (YouTube, 3 min.
Jakob Nielsen
Nov 10, 20259 min read
UX Roundup: Outpacing Human Aging | Animating Paintings | Domain-Specific UX | Bad AI Video | Top Avatars Vary by Platform | Search Research | o3-mini
Tech advances outpace human aging | Specializing in design for a target domain | The best-performing Avatars vary by social-media platform
Jakob Nielsen
Feb 3, 202513 min read
UX Roundup: Many-Shot UX Prompting | Professor Prompts | Useless UX | 10K Midjourney | Offshoring Comments | Tourist Users | Dark Design
Many-Shot prompts likely to improve some UX tasks | Prompt library for educational use of AI | LinkedIn’s useless UX advice
Jakob Nielsen
May 6, 202410 min read
UX Roundup: TikTok Participation Inequality | GPT-5 UX | 2 UXers > 1 | Jakob Live
A version of the 90-9-1 rule applies to TikTok video postings | Debrief with a colleague after watching UX talks or podcasts
Jakob Nielsen
Apr 1, 20248 min read
10,000 Newsletter Subscribers
From zero to ten thousand subscribers in half a year. Why are email subscribers the most important success metric, and how does one grow it?
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 10, 20244 min read