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Jakob Nielsen

Jul 24

21 min read

Updated: Aug 2

A New AI: Creation as Exploration and Discovery

Summary: AI transforms UX into exploration-based discovery. Users will navigate latent solution spaces rather than specifying outcomes. Creation shifts from building or describing to discovering possibilities. Future interfaces become collaborative playgrounds where users recognize solutions instead of articulating visions, augmenting human existence. For a fun summary of this article: Watch my music video Creation by Discovery: Navigating Latent Design Space (YouTube, 5 mi

The 10 Usability Heuristics in Cartoons

Finally, what you have been waiting for: a humorous take on Jakob Nielsen’s classic 10 usability heuristics explained in 80 cartoons.

4 Metaphors for Working with AI: Intern, Coworker, Teacher, Coach

Viewing AI as an eager but unskilled intern was appropriate in early 2023, but this metaphor is now too limiting for good AI use.

Dark Design Patterns Catalog

India outlawed 12 common dark design patterns. These sneaky practices are unethical applications of established UX knowledge to harm users.

Jakob’s Law of the Internet User Experience

Users spend most of their time on other websites, so they expect your site to work like all the other sites they already know.

Ideation Is Free: AI Exhibits Strong Creativity, But AI-Human Co-Creation Is Better

12 research studies confirm that AI’s creativity surpasses humans in sheer idea abundance. Yet human-AI co-creation performs even better.

The 10 Usability Heuristics Reimagined

Many people have published great new ways of explaining the classic 10 usability heuristics.

UX Needs a Sense of Urgency About AI

UX professionals must seize the AI career imperative or become irrelevant.

AI Is First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years

AI systems are launching the 3rd user-interface paradigm in the history of computing: intent-based outcome specification.