

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
12 minutes ago8 min read


Aided Prompt Understanding: UX Design Patterns to Build AI Prompting Skills
AI won’t reach its full potential until people better understand how to work with it, but most people have no idea how their AI prompt works
Jakob Nielsen
4 days ago8 min read


UX Roundup: AI as General-Purpose or Cultural Tech | AI for Teamwork | Jakob’s Law Manga | 3 Ages of UX | Action Figure
Is AI general-purpose technology or a cultural force | AI boosts teamwork | Jakob’s Law as a manga | 3 ages of UX | Usability action figure
Jakob Nielsen
Apr 78 min read


Maximum Minimalism: The Ultimate Evolution of Intuitive Design
Maximum Minimalism removes text and images, leaving only buttons for interaction. This streamlined approach leverages spatial memory.
Jakob Nielsen
Apr 16 min read


UX Roundup: Modest UX Salary Drop | Reasoning Scaling Law | AI Task Scope Grows | Customer Journey Management | 3 New Image Generators
Reasoning model scaling law confirmed | AI task scope doubles every 7 Months | Customer journey management
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 3110 min read


Prompt Augmentation: UX Design Patterns for Better AI Prompting
Design patterns to overcome the AI articulation barrier: Style Galleries, Prompt Rewrite, Targeted Prompt Rewrite, Related Prompts, Prompt B
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 2717 min read


UX Roundup: Jakob Live | Jakob’s Interview Answers | Perplexity UX Fails | Build a Side Business | Instagram 1K
The state of UX | Don’t settle: build a side business | 1,000 Instagram posts
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 248 min read


Declining ROI From UX Design Work
Diminishing returns for UX signal victory: usability battles have been won and the low-hanging fruit harvested.
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 2013 min read


UX Roundup: 20K Subscribers | Voice Sound vs Character | Voice UI for Old Users | CoT Explaining AI | Ideogram Release 2a | Easy Avatars | Track AI in Analytics | Gemini Images
Newsletter subscribers | Voice sound vs character | Voice UI for old users | Does chain-of-thought help users form mental models of AI?
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 1715 min read


Does User-Driven Design Still Need User-Centered Design?
Vibe coding places users in control of digital functionality. AI enables rapid, inexpensive design, so UX professionals must pivot.
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 1314 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


Vibe Coding and Vibe Design
AI transforms software development and UX design through natural language intent specification, accelerating prototyping & redefining roles.
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 713 min read


UX Roundup: Explainer Videos | AI Overload | AI Music | Over-Recuiting | Home Robots | GPT 4.5
AI stigma & SEO explainer videos | Overwhelmed by AI progress | AI music improves | Overrecruiting study participants to account for no-show
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 310 min read


From PageRank to DeepRank: Attracting AI-Driven Traffic to Digital Properties
Search is losing ground to AI fast. If you’re not visible to AI and included in AI-generated answers, you’re invisible on the Internet.
Jakob Nielsen
Feb 2816 min read


SEO & UX: Search Engine Optimization Best Practices
Search ranking manipulation has died; serving users has won. User-centered design principles outperform chasing algorithm tricks for ranking
Jakob Nielsen
Feb 2511 min read