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UX News: Winning UX Tools | Error Messages | Showing Payment Options | Virtual Girlfriend

Jakob Nielsen

Sep 18, 20237 min read

UX News: Winning UX Tools | Error Messages | Showing Payment Options | Virtual Girlfriend

Award-Winning AI-Enabled UX Design & Research Tools You Need to Try | Flow chart for better error messages | Alternate payment options

Jakob Nielsen

Sep 13, 202312 min read

UX Angst of 2023-24

The UX sky’s not falling; it’s reshaping. AI integration will facilitate a UX renaissance, while the profession’s growth shows viability.

AI’s Role in Human-AI Symbiosis: Originator or Refiner

Jakob Nielsen

Sep 6, 20237 min read

AI’s Role in Human-AI Symbiosis: Originator or Refiner

It is cheaper to let AI take the initiative in human–AI collaborations where it generates a range of initial ideas for humans to winnow.

UX News: Infant Screen Use | UX Salaries Drop | UX Haikus | Single-Word Prompts | AI Awareness

Jakob Nielsen

Sep 4, 202310 min read

UX News: Infant Screen Use | UX Salaries Drop | UX Haikus | Single-Word Prompts | AI Awareness

Jakob Nielsen

Sep 1, 20238 min read

Classic Usability Important for AI

AI products are fraught with basic usability errors, violating decades-old UX findings. Simple fixes will save AI users much pain.

Jakob Nielsen

Aug 30, 20237 min read

Search vs. AI: What’s Faster?

User productivity was 158% higher when answering questions with ChatGPT than with Google. Satisfaction scores were higher for AI than search

Will AI Cause Wage Stagnation or Growth?

Jakob Nielsen

Aug 25, 20237 min read

Will AI Cause Wage Stagnation or Growth?

Average wages are flat for the first 50 years after a major economic revolution. AI is a revolution, but with a different outcome.

Automated Content Strategy and Tone-of-Voice Metrics

Jakob Nielsen

Aug 23, 202310 min read

Automated Content Strategy and Tone-of-Voice Metrics

AI tools analyze large volumes of content & provide metrics like readability, style, & sentiment. Track content quality at scale, over time.

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

Jakob Nielsen

Aug 18, 202321 min read

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

12 research studies confirm that AI’s creativity surpasses humans in sheer idea abundance. Yet human-AI co-creation performs even better.

UX Portfolio Reviews and Hiring Exercises in the Age of Generative AI

Jakob Nielsen

Aug 16, 20239 min read

UX Portfolio Reviews and Hiring Exercises in the Age of Generative AI

Job candidates must showcase AI skills in portfolios. Hiring managers must change recruiting to select applicants with combined UX/AI skills

AI Is More Creative Than 99% of Humans — on One Metric

Jakob Nielsen

Aug 9, 202311 min read

AI Is More Creative Than 99% of Humans — on One Metric

AI overwhelmingly surpasses humans at creative ideation, at least in the idea-producing stage of the diverge-converge model.

Jakob Nielsen

Aug 2, 20238 min read

The Need for Speed in AI

AI needs much faster response time to meet human demands, which remain unaltered from previous UI paradigms.

Differing Approaches to Increasing AI Awareness in Companies

Jakob Nielsen

Aug 1, 20232 min read

Differing Approaches to Increasing AI Awareness in Companies

It is important for all companies to increase employee understanding of AI. This is particularly important for knowledge-intensive work.

Operant Conditioning in Generative AI Image Creation

Jakob Nielsen

Jul 25, 20235 min read

Operant Conditioning in Generative AI Image Creation

Torment users with alternating emotions of euphoria and anguish as AI metes out sublime or disastrous pictures with wanton unpredictability.

The AI Revolution Won’t Cause Mass Unemployment

Jakob Nielsen

Jul 11, 202313 min read

The AI Revolution Won’t Cause Mass Unemployment

Productivity gains from AI will obliterate many jobs, but people adapt and create new work. Humans always crave more, inventing new products

Jakob Nielsen

Jul 9, 20231 min read

AI can Boost Education

Case study of using AI to critique student presentations.

AI Generates Complex Text, Challenging Many Readers

Jakob Nielsen

Jul 5, 202312 min read

AI Generates Complex Text, Challenging Many Readers

Generative AI tools often produce text at high reading levels, posing difficulty for low-literacy users. A copy review is imperative.

UX Experts Misjudge Cost-Benefit from Broad AI Deployment Across the Economy

Jakob Nielsen

Jul 2, 20233 min read

UX Experts Misjudge Cost-Benefit from Broad AI Deployment Across the Economy

UX professionals underestimate the measured productivity gains from AI tools, whereas they overestimate the growth of the economy.

Jakob Nielsen

Jun 29, 20235 min read

AI Makes Happy Geeks

Software developers who use AI-powered tools when programming experience greater job satisfaction and creative fulfillment.

Generative AI Enhances Old Users’ Intellectual Performance Through Wise Winnowing

Jakob Nielsen

Jun 27, 202310 min read

Generative AI Enhances Old Users’ Intellectual Performance Through Wise Winnowing

Juice the creative output of old knowledge workers with a wide range of AI-created ideas.

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

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