AI | UX Tigers 4/7

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: 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

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.

Jakob Nielsen

Mar 66 min read

Embrace AI’s Uncertainty in UX

AI’s probabilistic nature changes all areas of user experience, impacting users, UX researchers, and designers.

UX Roundup: Ideogram Big Improvements | UX Apprentice | High School UX | Kindergarten UX | Self-Taught UX Designers

Jakob Nielsen

Mar 48 min read

UX Roundup: Ideogram Big Improvements | UX Apprentice | High School UX | Kindergarten UX | Self-Taught UX Designers

Ideogram 1.0 huge improvements in text rendering + image quality | You don’t need a university degree to do UX | Self-taught UX designers

Accessibility Has Failed: Try Generative UI = Individualized UX

Jakob Nielsen

Feb 297 min read

Accessibility Has Failed: Try Generative UI = Individualized UX

Traditional accessibility methods have been tried for 30 years without improving usability for disabled users. Generative UI may be better.

Multi-Craft Specialized Content in the AI Era

Jakob Nielsen

Feb 228 min read

Multi-Craft Specialized Content in the AI Era

AI won’t replace human creativity, it will amplify it. Forget mass-market entertainment; the true revolution is in hyper-targeted content.

Individualizing UX: Ever Narrower User Targeting

Jakob Nielsen

Feb 87 min read

Individualizing UX: Ever Narrower User Targeting

User targeting in UX has progressed through 5 stages : target audience, personas, customization, personalization, AI individualization.

UX Roundup: AI As General-Purpose Tech | AI Can Do Card Sorting | Mental Models | ChatGPT Lazy Fix | New Song

Jakob Nielsen

Feb 59 min read

UX Roundup: AI As General-Purpose Tech | AI Can Do Card Sorting | Mental Models | ChatGPT Lazy Fix | New Song

AI is a general-purpose technology that can double economic growth | Comparing human card sorting with AI categorization

Jakob Nielsen

Feb 18 min read

What AI Can and Cannot Do for UX

AI can already perform many UX tasks. It will do more in the future, including maybe UI design. But AI will not replace watching users.

UX Roundup: AI-First Design | Dark Design | Non-Deterministic UX | Jakob Live | User Research Job

Jakob Nielsen

Jan 295 min read

UX Roundup: AI-First Design | Dark Design | Non-Deterministic UX | Jakob Live | User Research Job

AI-First Products | Dark Design | Perplexity AI

UX Roundup: Domain-Optimized AI | Be a Test User | Heuristic Evaluation Template | Jakob Live

Jakob Nielsen

Jan 224 min read

UX Roundup: Domain-Optimized AI | Be a Test User | Heuristic Evaluation Template | Jakob Live

Optimizing AI answers for a specific domain and perspective | Participate in user-research studies yourself | Heuristic evaluation template.

AI Habit Formation: Future-Proofing Your UX Career

Jakob Nielsen

Jan 193 min read

AI Habit Formation: Future-Proofing Your UX Career

Integrate AI into your UX workflow through effective habit formation: establish cues that trigger regular AI use to build your expertise.

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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