Jakob Nielsen
Oct 27, 20234 min read
UX Roundup: Data Visualization | AI Analysis of Qual Data | Sycophantic AI | 7 Steps to AI in UX
Making complex data more understandable, a 5 years retrospective | Prompt for analyzing qualitative user data | AI is too ready to please
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 27, 202310 min read
Professional Growth for a Solo UX Practitioner
Strategy for a UX professional to gain skills and professional acumen despite being the only UX specialist in a company.
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 25, 202334 min read
UX in Africa
UX is rapidly growing in Africa, especially in startups and Fintech companies. The continent’s young population eagerly adopts technology.
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 23, 20235 min read
4 Degrees of Anthropomorphism in Using AI
People often treat an AI as another person at different degrees of fidelity. Anthropomorphism serves as a cognitive bridge to understand AI.
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 20, 20237 min read
Unreliability of AI in Evaluating UX Screenshots
Case study of ChatGPT evaluating 12 e-commerce screenshots: Most AI-driven redesign suggestions were inconsistent and untrustworthy.
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 18, 202315 min read
Getting Started with AI for UX
Use generative-AI tools to support and enhance your UX skills — not to replace them. Start with small UX tasks, and watch out for bad advice
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 16, 20236 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 13, 202310 min read
Analyzing Qualitative User Data at Enterprise Scale With AI: The GE Case Study
Deriving UX insights from masses of qualitative user data is hard. AI-assisted sifting of individual user comments humanizes heaps of data.
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 11, 20233 min read
Jakob Nielsen’s 10 Usability Heuristics as Haikus
7 haikus define heuristic evaluation and tell us why the 10 heuristics are important. Each heuristic is explained with two haikus.
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 9, 20236 min read
UX Roundup: GenAI Visual Shootout | Incremental Gains | Citation Analysis | A Real Recession
GenAI Visual Shootout | Incremental Gains | Citation Analysis | A Real Recession
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 6, 20238 min read
UX Vocabulary Inflation
UX suffers from constant reinvention of the terminology used to describe our concepts, leading to confusion, miscommunication, and rework.
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 4, 20236 min read
AI Companions: Good or Bad for Users?
AI companions are a killer app because users like that their AI friend is non-judgmental, always there, kind, and agreeable.
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 2, 202310 min read
UX News: ChatGPT Web Browsing | Evil Apple | AI Organizational Change | Elon Musk | 101 UX Countries
UX News for Oct. 2, 2023: ChatGPT’s web browsing too shallow to impress | Apple’s subscription revenue greed causes dark design patterns.