UX Roundup: AI as Interviewer | Design Theater | The Planning Fallacy | Humans as Middleware | Long-Horizon Tasks | Good Videos
AI conducting user interviews mostly failed to probe deeply | AI UI tools break 1/4 of their design promises | The planning fallacy makes us believe more in schedules than they deserve | Cards as a UI element | Humans are middleware for AI | How to make AI support extended tasks that take weeks to complete | Two recommended AI videos in sharply different genres and durations
Jakob Nielsen
6 hours ago17 min read
The 50 Most Common User Research Methods, Ranked by Value
The 50 most common user research methods scored on breadth of scope, depth of insights, remote suitability, and cost, then ranked by total value.
Jakob Nielsen
2 days ago22 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: 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