Jakob Nielsen
Nov 25, 202411 min read
UX Roundup: AI-UX One-Day Conference | AI Format Remixing | UXR Prompt Cheatsheet | Research Report Renaissance | Worst UI Ever | Flexible Displays | Scaling Law for Physical AI | Podcast | Le Chat
Using AI to repurpose content into additional formats | Cheatsheet with AI prompts for user research | Worst UI ever | Flexible displays
Jakob Nielsen
Nov 21, 20246 min read
Design Leaders Should Go “Founder Mode”
The future of design leadership is not to aspire to ever-higher executive roles. Embrace “Founder Mode" hands-on and vision-based leadership
Jakob Nielsen
Nov 18, 20249 min read
UX Roundup: Jakob Keynote Video | University Courses | 8 Uses of AI for UX Design | Museum Usability
Full video from Oslo keynote | Promising university courses | Main uses of AI in the UX design process | Museum usability
Jakob Nielsen
Nov 11, 20248 min read
UX Roundup: World Usability Day | Bits to Atoms | Doing vs. Learning | AI Denial
From bits to atoms: when do we get super-human robots? | Doing vs. learning with AI | Older managers in denial about AI progress
Jakob Nielsen
Nov 7, 20247 min read
AI With “Computer Use”: Agents, Accessibility Fix, Facilitating Usability Tests
Summary : AI’s new capability to operate computers directly could redefine user experience, from aiding disabled users to automating...
Jakob Nielsen
Nov 4, 20248 min read
UX Roundup: AI Camera | Web Design Mistakes | UX Job Openings
Directing the AI camera for emotional impact | Web design mistakes the same as ever | UX job openings: equal numbers for senior and junior
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 28, 20249 min read
UX Roundup: AI Metaphors Quiz | Text Fields | Speaking in Oslo | Usability Poster | AI Elo Scores | Cost to Orbit
Quiz about the 4 AI metaphors | Traditional text entry fields are best | Usability poster | Interpreting the Elo scores for AI models
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 21, 20248 min read
UX Roundup: Design Metrics | Users Don’t Like to Read | Kids and Dark Design | Chinese Design | Single Name Field | Stop CAPTCHA | Nuclear Google
Design metrics that measure user value | Users don’t like to read | Children’s awareness of dark design patterns | Why Chinese design looks
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 17, 20249 min read
Strong AI Creativity
Summary : AI is reshaping the landscape of creativity and innovation. AI outperforms humans in both general ideation and the production...
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 14, 202410 min read
UX Roundup: AI in Mathematics | Mainstreaming Usability | Sparkles Emoji | Changing E-Commerce Guidelines | SFTechWeek Event
AI makes mathematics research more scalable | Usability enters the mainstream | Sparkles emoji as the icon for AI in user interfaces
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 10, 20247 min read
UX Roundup: Consultants Don’t Work | Apple AI | AI as General-Purpose Technology | Generative UI for the Enterprise
Consultants don’t work for improving productivity through AI | Apple AI = bad AI | AI is a general-purpose technology | Enterprise GenUI
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 7, 202411 min read
UX Roundup: OpenAI Canvas | Evaluating AI Video | AI Podcast | AI Translation | AI Adoption & Retention | Flux 1.1
OpenAI Canvas heralds hybrid UI for AI | Evaluating AI video models in pairwise quality comparisons | AI-created podcast | AI translation
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 3, 202411 min read
UX Roundup: Jakob Live | Reducing Extreme Poverty | Training with AI Agents | Healthcare Leapfrogging | Human vs AI Doctors | AI Leaderboard
Progress in reducing extreme poverty | AI Agents as training aides | Will AI finally leapfrog healthcare delivery?
Jakob Nielsen
Sep 30, 202411 min read
UX Roundup: AI-Created Podcast | Likely to Recommend? | Unproductive Metrics | Are UIs Needed? | Faster Tech Diffusion | AI Predictions | Sam Altman Essay | AI UX Job
Podcast created by AI | What people say vs. do relative to product recommendations | Metrics that incentivize the wrong behavior
Jakob Nielsen
Sep 26, 202414 min read
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.