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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

UX Roundup: AI in the Classroom | UX Design Bias | New AI-UX Course | UX Certification | Disappointing Sora Videos

Jakob Nielsen

Mar 2910 min read

UX Roundup: AI in the Classroom | UX Design Bias | New AI-UX Course | UX Certification | Disappointing Sora Videos

Educational use of AI-generated songs | Weakness of manual UX design | Disappointing AI videos from pro filmmakers

Jakob Nielsen

Mar 2717 min read

Top AI Tools Used by UX Professionals

UX professionals used 93 different AI tools: 12 UX-specific AI tools were fairly popular. Low overlap in popular AI between UX & the public

UX Roundup: Have AI Check You | Toast Notifications | GUI Course | Boring UX | Human Designer vs. AI Design

Jakob Nielsen

Mar 258 min read

UX Roundup: Have AI Check You | Toast Notifications | GUI Course | Boring UX | Human Designer vs. AI Design

Turning the tables: Use AI to check your work | Toast notifications are a burnt GUI widget | Do people prefer human or AI design?

UX Roundup: Early Facebook UX | Hybrid UI for Generative UI | Eyetracking | Slack UX | Small-Language GPT | AI UX Courses | Jakob Live | Better AI Songs

Jakob Nielsen

Mar 2210 min read

Julie Zhou recalls Facebook’s early user interface designs | Tools for generative UI need a hybrid UI | Early eyetracking reseach

Jakob Nielsen

Mar 205 min read

Does AI Numb the Brain?

Will AI turn our brains to mush? History suggests otherwise. New tech always sparks fears of cognitive decline. But AI will free our minds.

UX Roundup: Portfolio Without Experience | AI-UX Course | Jakob on UX Greece | Test with 5 Users | ImageGen Shootout

Jakob Nielsen

Mar 187 min read

UX Roundup: Portfolio Without Experience | AI-UX Course | Jakob on UX Greece | Test with 5 Users | ImageGen Shootout

How to build a UX portfolio before getting your first UX job | Usability testing with 5 users: the comic strip

UX Roundup: AI Saves Fuel | Checkboxes Must be Square | Good Books | AI Jobs Grow | Perplexity Grows

Jakob Nielsen

Mar 158 min read

UX Roundup: AI Saves Fuel | Checkboxes Must be Square | Good Books | AI Jobs Grow | Perplexity Grows

Saving fuel by AI-optimized airline routing | Apple violates 40 years of GUI standards | Recommended reading about storytelling and non-UX

A/B Testing Paradox: UX Maturity Reduces Your Gains

Jakob Nielsen

Mar 135 min read

A/B Testing Paradox: UX Maturity Reduces Your Gains

A dataset of 74 A/B tests shows average KPI lifts of 0.2% from the statistically-significant experiments. This produced ROI of 620%.

UX Roundup: Time Estimates for Quant Projects | LinkedIn Rant | Benchmarking UX | Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan UX | Free AI Courses

Jakob Nielsen

Mar 119 min read

UX Roundup: Time Estimates for Quant Projects | LinkedIn Rant | Benchmarking UX | Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan UX | Free AI Courses

Estimating the time duration of quantitative user research projects | LinkedIn’s anti-link algorithm is bad | Benchmarking research.

Jakob Nielsen

Mar 86 min read

Directions for the UX Profession

A thematic analysis of social media posts identified key themes, offering a audience-centered perspective on the future of UX design.

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Design Leaders Should Go “Founder Mode”

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

Dark Design Patterns Catalog

UX Angst of 2023-24

Jakob’s Law of the Internet User Experience

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

The 10 Usability Heuristics Reimagined

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