

Join the AI Revolution Now, or Forever Regret Missing Out
The transformative potential of the AI revolution is a career opportunity. Early engagement in AI creates joy and self-realization.
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 29, 20245 min read


UX Roundup: Why a Tiger? | Design Conference | AI Help Info | UX Degree or Keep Working? | AI Disinflation | IIT Top | AI Filmmaking | Hotshot AI Video
Why UX Tigers has a tiger brand | Major Design conference | Getting AI to provide help about itself | UX degree or keep working?
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 26, 202410 min read


UX Roundup: Top AI Consumer Services | Ideogram 2.0 | Midjourney for All | Amazon AI
Summary : Top 50 AI consumer services | Ideogram launches upgraded version 2.0 | Midjourney’s web user interface finally available to all...
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 24, 20249 min read


AI Optimism
AI’s impact on job markets will likely mirror previous innovations. The projected 10,000x increase in AI by 2027 will bring wealth and jobs.
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 22, 20247 min read


UX Roundup: Nagging UI Reminders | Typeface Manga | Little Tech | Form Fields | AI Conference | Midjourney IQ | Grok 2
Nagging UI reminders become a dark design pattern | Typeface manga | Number of fields on web forms | Image quality vs scene quality
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 19, 202412 min read


10 Foundational Insights for UX
Summary : UX has come a long way since its early beginnings at Bell Labs in the 1940s. As we enter Year 2 of the AI revolution, it’s...
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 15, 202420 min read


UX Roundup: Hindsight Bias | Rubric for Insightful AI | User-Contributed Photos | Black Forest AI
Stakeholders deem UX work to be “obvious” | Rubric for scoring insightful use of AI | Make it easy to see all user-contributed photos
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 12, 20247 min read


Innovator’s Dilemma Hits Design: Growing Capabilities of AI-Driven Amateur Design Tools
As AI-powered tools like Freepik and Canva advance and empower amateur designers, is the era of professional designers coming to an end?
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 8, 20246 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 5, 202411 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
Aug 1, 20245 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 29, 202415 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 26, 20242 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 24, 20246 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 22, 202410 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 18, 20243 min read