

Jakob Nielsen
Apr 18, 20246 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.


Jakob Nielsen
Apr 15, 20247 min read
UX Roundup: Synchronizing Captions | SUS Survey | First Mac GUI | Student/Beginner Portfolios | Solve the Easy Problem | More UX Songs
Auto-sync makes YouTube captions easier to create | SUS questionnaire user satisfaction is too long | Revolutionary first Mac GUI


Jakob Nielsen
Apr 12, 20248 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


Jakob Nielsen
Apr 10, 20248 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.


Jakob Nielsen
Apr 8, 20248 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


Jakob Nielsen
Apr 5, 20248 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 3, 20249 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.


Jakob Nielsen
Apr 1, 20248 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


Jakob Nielsen
Mar 29, 202410 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 27, 202417 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


Jakob Nielsen
Mar 25, 20248 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?


Jakob Nielsen
Mar 22, 202410 min read
UX Roundup: Early Facebook UX | Hybrid UI for Generative UI | Eyetracking | Slack UX | Small-Language GPT | AI UX Courses | Jakob Live | Better AI Songs
Julie Zhou recalls Facebook’s early user interface designs | Tools for generative UI need a hybrid UI | Early eyetracking reseach


Jakob Nielsen
Mar 20, 20245 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.


Jakob Nielsen
Mar 18, 20247 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


Jakob Nielsen
Mar 15, 20248 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