April - 2024

UX Roundup: Luxury Usability | User Testing, the Movie | AI = Ozempic | Better Analytics | Job Hunt Advice | Design Similarity

Jakob Nielsen

Apr 298 min read

Summary: Luxury websites have bad usability | Poster fail: User testing, the movie | AI is Ozempic for the company | Is Microsoft Clarity...

Jakob Nielsen

Apr 2511 min read

Diamond Prompting in UX Work

The dual prompting approach in AI-driven UX design distinguishes between exploratory and detail-refining phases.

UX Roundup: GenUI Feeding & Design Systems | Autoformat Credit Card Numbers | Systems Thinking | Top Companies by Geo | Dovetail AI | Jakob Keynote | Llama 3

Jakob Nielsen

Apr 228 min read

Generative UI benefits from design systems | Autoformat credit card numbers as chunks | Systems thinking

Jakob Nielsen

Apr 186 min read

AI as UX Integration Glue

Users today face a fragmented digital experience, constantly navigating between incompatible apps and websites. AI could serve as glue.

UX Roundup: Synchronizing Captions | SUS Survey | First Mac GUI | Student/Beginner Portfolios | Solve the Easy Problem | More UX Songs

Jakob Nielsen

Apr 157 min read

Auto-sync makes YouTube captions easier to create | SUS questionnaire user satisfaction is too long | Revolutionary first Mac GUI

UX Roundup: Collaborative AI Workflow | New Music Service | Clear > Clever | Team Skill Hackathon | AI-Driven KPI

Jakob Nielsen

Apr 128 min read

UX Roundup: Collaborative AI Workflow | New Music Service | Clear > Clever | Team Skill Hackathon | AI-Driven KPI

Leonardo support for collaborative AI workflow in UX design | Clear beats clever in UX | Hackathon to grow team skills | AI-enabled KPIs

Commodification and Pancaking of UX: Accept Reality and Plan New Career Paths

Jakob Nielsen

Apr 108 min read

Commodification and Pancaking of UX: Accept Reality and Plan New Career Paths

UX is evolving rapidly, with AI integration and a shift towards distributed expertise. UX will be like a pancake: spread thin but delicious.

UX Roundup: How UX Researchers Use AI | Integrate AI With Existing App | Short Videos | New Remote Research Tool | Business School AI

Jakob Nielsen

Apr 88 min read

UX Roundup: How UX Researchers Use AI | Integrate AI With Existing App | Short Videos | New Remote Research Tool | Business School AI

Study of how user researchers use AI | Integrating AI within an existing software product | Short highlights from Jakob’s recent videos

UX Roundup: Pilot Testing | AI Companions | Dark Design Patterns: An Australian Warning | Usability Testing Templates | No-Registration ChatGPT

Jakob Nielsen

Apr 58 min read

UX Roundup: Pilot Testing | AI Companions | Dark Design Patterns: An Australian Warning | Usability Testing Templates | No-Registration ChatGPT

Iterative user research | Pilot study | AI Companions | Dark design | Templates for usability studies

Jakob Nielsen

Apr 39 min read

User Research with Humans vs. AI

AI offers many benefits in user research and can enhance, but not replace, the human touch in user-centered design.

UX Roundup: TikTok Participation Inequality | GPT-5 UX | 2 UXers > 1 | Jakob Live

Jakob Nielsen

Apr 18 min read

UX Roundup: TikTok Participation Inequality | GPT-5 UX | 2 UXers > 1 | Jakob Live

A version of the 90-9-1 rule applies to TikTok video postings | Debrief with a colleague after watching UX talks or podcasts

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

Top AI Tools Used by UX Professionals

UX Angst of 2023-24

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

The 10 Usability Heuristics Reimagined

Generative AI Enhances Old Users’ Intellectual Performance Through Wise Winnowing

UX Needs a Sense of Urgency About AI

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