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
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UX Roundup: AI Follow-Up Questions in Usability Studies | Top UX Evaluation Methods | AI Use in UX | Keep Users in the Flow | New Grok Image Model
Summary : AI can ask follow-up questions in usability sessions | The top 3 UX evaluation methods | AI use in UX | New hybrid UI for AI...
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 11, 202410 min read
Watch What Users Do, Don’t Listen to What They Say: Revealed Preferences vs. the Query Effect
Actions speak louder than words. Observation trumps inquiry. Reality defies expectation. Abandon self-reported bias and focus on observation
Jakob Nielsen
Sep 5, 20245 min read