UX Roundup: UI vs. UX | Content Con | AI Avoids Traffic Accidents | AI Poetry | Direct vs. Indirect Prompting | Image Gen Progress
UI vs. UX | AI reduces traffic injuries | AI Poetry | Direct vs. Indirect Prompting | Image Gen Progress
Jakob Nielsen
2 days ago8 min read
UX Roundup: Augmented Reality Glasses | AI Skills Development | Fuzzy Concept Search | AI Super-Thesaurus | Readability Levels | Microsoft Reducing AI Spending | Lip-Synch Comparison | Top AI Services
AR glasses help blind users | Practice with AI to build lasting skills | AI for fuzzy concept searches | AI as a super-thesaurus
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 1012 min read
Can AI Identify an Author’s Background from a Writing Sample?
Analyzing writing to identify the author’s native origin is a task that’s borderline beyond the capabilities of current AI.
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 99 min read
UX Roundup: ElevenLabs Podcast | Usability Guidelines as Figma Plugin | AI Kills Companies | o1 and o1 Pro
New podcast creation | Figma Plugin with UX design guidelines | Traditional company business models disrupted by AI | New AI models
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 9, 20248 min read
Better AI Creative Writing?
The creative writing abilities of ChatGPT have improved a little, as shown by a small experiment in two genres: poetry & children’s stories.
Jakob Nielsen
Nov 27, 20247 min read
AI Increases Creativity in Writing Fiction and Narrows the Creativity Gap Between Authors
Summary: AI transforms creativity, lifting every writer’s potential, as measured in a new study of people writing short fictional stories...
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 1, 20245 min read
UX Roundup: UX Portfolios | Linkrot | Midjourney User Testing | AI-Sourced Articles | Cheaper AI
Target UX portfolios at busy hiring managers | Linkrot eats away at Web connectivity | Midjourney to start usability testing
Jakob Nielsen
Jun 10, 20246 min read
Specification Lists Have Terrible Usability
Dissecting the anatomy of specification sheets on ecommerce platforms. Using Amazon as a case study to illustrate common pitfalls.
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 26, 20243 min read
The 3 Ages of Authorship and Creation
Oral tradition, writing and printing, and newly developing human-AI co-created media differ along multiple dimensions.
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 12, 202411 min read
UX Roundup: 100K LinkedIn Followers | Jakob & ADPList | AI UI Beyond Chat | UX Writing & AI
How Jakob gained 100,000 followers on LinkedIn | AI model answers UX questions | Write like a machine, think like a human.
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 11, 20238 min read
UX Roundup: OpenAI Debacle | Productive AI in UX | Better Headlines | Faster Horses | Solo UXer
Summary: Implications of the near-disaster at OpenAI | Improving productivity of UX work by using AI | Writing good headlines for UX...
Jakob Nielsen
Nov 27, 20238 min read
UX Roundup: User Retention Metrics | UX Writing | Kano Model | Mobile First Harmful | UX Soloist
Most companies use wrong user metrics to measure retention. Mobile-First design bad for desktop users. Professional growth for solo UXera.
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 16, 20236 min read
UX News: AI User Behaviors | Brevity | My vs. Your | Design for Legacy | Screentime for Toddlers
UX News for Sept 25: AI user behaviors, UX writing, design for legacy systems, screen exposure and childhood development
Jakob Nielsen
Sep 25, 20235 min read
AI’s Role in Human-AI Symbiosis: Originator or Refiner
It is cheaper to let AI take the initiative in human–AI collaborations where it generates a range of initial ideas for humans to winnow.
Jakob Nielsen
Sep 6, 20237 min read
Automated Content Strategy and Tone-of-Voice Metrics
AI tools analyze large volumes of content & provide metrics like readability, style, & sentiment. Track content quality at scale, over time.
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 23, 202310 min read
The Articulation Barrier: Prompt-Driven AI UX Hurts Usability
Prompts for intent-based outcomes require users to be articulate in writing prose, which is a challenge for half of the population.
Jakob Nielsen
May 25, 20236 min read