Jakob Nielsen
Aug 5, 202411 min read
UX Roundup: AI Empathy | Submit Buttons | European Job Changes | Runway AI Video | Writing Questions for User Research | Leonardo Sold | Midjourney New Release
AI shows more empathy than human doctors | “Submit” considered harmful | Europe too slow for AI | Prompt AI for user research questions
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 1, 20245 min read
AI Increases Creativity in Writing Fiction and Narrows the Creativity Gap Between Authors
Summary: AI transforms creativity, lifting every writer’s potential, as measured in a new study of people writing short fictional stories...
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 29, 202415 min read
UX Roundup: LEGO Labs | Mockup UX Book | Revisiting Futurism | Cheap AI Enables New Services | Prompt Roles | Mistral 2 | Kling | Good AI Animation | Design Highest GPA
Lessons from LEGO’s Creative Play Lab | What new products and services can be built with 10x or 10 less investment needed because of AI?
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 26, 20242 min read
Information Scent: How Users Decide Where to Click
Users follow scents of relevance. Navigation becomes intuitive. Content discoverable. Experience enhanced.
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 24, 20246 min read
New AI Models: GPT 4o mini and Llama 3.1 405B
AI evolves. Prices drop. Performance rises. Giants compete. Open-source challenges proprietary. Future uncertain. Progress accelerates.
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 22, 202410 min read
UX Roundup: UX Salaries Drop | Retain Talents | Logo Memorability | Nigeria | Midjourney Personalization | AI Investments
UX salaries down by 12% in a year | To retain top talents, assign them to experiment with AI
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 18, 20243 min read
3 Generations of Experience Technology
Summary: Past, present, and future user experience: lean-back, lean-forward, and be-inside. A combination of AI and gaming will create a...
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 16, 20246 min read
High UX Salaries have Held Steady for 26 Years
Adjusted for inflation, salaries for UX professionals have been about the same from the earliest salary data in 1998 to the new 2023 data.
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 15, 20247 min read
UX Roundup: Perceived Speed | AI Ideation | Deterministic vs. Probabilistic UX | McKinsey AI | No-Scroll Google | AI Imposter Syndrome
Perceived fast response times improve the user experience | Many ideas in no time from AI | Deterministic UI vs. probabilistic AI UX
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 12, 20247 min read
UX Roundup: 10 UX Insights | Dark Design | Y Oslo | Low-Latency Voice | Movie Posters | Hero Videos
Top 10 foundational UX insights | 76% of online services use dark design patterns | Low-latency voice communication | Video as hero images
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 10, 20248 min read
The Decade of AI Super-Acceleration
AI's rapid advancement is caused by 3 factors: raw compute, algorithmic efficiency, and "unhobbling." Result: 10,000x AI boost every 4 year
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 8, 202410 min read
UX Roundup: Survey Response Options | Ideogram | Deepfaking User Test Videos | AI IA | LDM = Large Design Model | Web History | AI Writes 10% of Science Papers
Discrete response options best measure users’ subjective satisfaction | Disguising test users | Shopify AI helps merchants' IA | LDM GenUI
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 3, 202410 min read
SuperGeek vs. SuperUX: Can the Two Meet?
AI-accelerated teams of the world’s best programmers will be tiny but create $100M/person in startup company value. How can UX keep up?
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 1, 20249 min read
UX Roundup: UX Secrets | Figma AI | AI Style Variation | Dark AI | Respect for UX | User Research & AI | Claude 3.5
No secrets in UX | Figma GenUI | Image stylistic variations in generative AI | AI used for dark design | How to get respect for UX
Jakob Nielsen
Jun 27, 20242 min read
UX Buzzwords Visit Planet Honest
57 overused buzzwords about user experience and user interface design: official definitions vs. what they often mean in practice!