

UX Roundup: Jakob Live | Jakob’s Interview Answers | Perplexity UX Fails | Build a Side Business | Instagram 1K
The state of UX | Don’t settle: build a side business | 1,000 Instagram posts
Jakob Nielsen
1 day ago8 min read


Declining ROI From UX Design Work
Diminishing returns for UX signal victory: usability battles have been won and the low-hanging fruit harvested.
Jakob Nielsen
5 days ago13 min read


Future is Lean, Mean, and Scary for UX Agencies
Increasing in-house UX maturity coupled with AI’s productivity explosion threatens the survival of UX consultancies and design agencies.
Jakob Nielsen
Feb 196 min read


UX Roundup: Status Updates | AI Tutoring | UX Optimism | Ideogram Text | AI-UX Conference | EU Multilingual LLM
Being asked for a status update is a bad sign | Strong results from AI tutors | UX Optimism | EU multilingual LLM
Jakob Nielsen
Feb 107 min read


UX Roundup: Wealth and Happiness | Wealth and AI | ASI and Unemployment
The relationship between wealth and happiness | Wealth and AI | Superintelligent AI and human unemployment
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 278 min read


UX Roundup: AI Research Window | AI Skill Substitution | World Economic Forum Predicts More UX Jobs | AI-UX Consultant | Bad Bird Lip-Synch
Closing AI research window | Inflection point for AI skill substitution | UX job growth | AI-UX consulting | Animating cute animals
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 209 min read


UX Roundup: 2025 UX Themes | Put New AI Models to the Test | AI Slide Creation | AI Analyzing Usability Tests | AI Job Creation | AI & UX Jobs
6 themes for UX in 2025 | Testing new AI with your own challenging tasks | AI middling at analyzing usability tests | AI’s impact on UX jobs
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 69 min read


Top 10 UX Articles of 2024
Jakob Nielsen's 2024 articles document UX as a field in transition, being revolutionized by AI, causing a need for professional development.
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 30, 202412 min read


UX Roundup: Sora: Not Impressed | AI Startups Growth | Hiring Staff with AI Skills | 150K LinkedIn Followers | AI Training on YouTube | Apple Intelligence Useless | Dr. AI | New o3 model
AI Startups Growth | Hiring Staff with AI Skills | Apple Intelligence Useless | Dr. AI | New o3 model
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 23, 202412 min read


UX Roundup: Designing AI Voices | AI Narrows Skill Gaps | New Music Video | Talk to Santa | Misadventures in Image Prompting | Bezos 95% AI | Multi-Tool AI Workflow | AI-UX Jobs
Emotional intent in AI voices | AI narrows skill gaps | Combining multiple AI tools into a single workflow | 13 AI-UX job openings Microsoft
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 16, 20249 min read


Design Leaders Should Go “Founder Mode”
The future of design leadership is not to aspire to ever-higher executive roles. Embrace “Founder Mode" hands-on and vision-based leadership
Jakob Nielsen
Nov 21, 20246 min read


UX Roundup: AI Camera | Web Design Mistakes | UX Job Openings
Directing the AI camera for emotional impact | Web design mistakes the same as ever | UX job openings: equal numbers for senior and junior
Jakob Nielsen
Nov 4, 20248 min read


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


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


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: 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


High UX Salaries have Held Steady for 26 Years
Adjusted for inflation, salaries for UX professionals have been about the same from the earliest salary data in 1998 to the new 2023 data.
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 16, 20246 min read


SuperGeek vs. SuperUX: Can the Two Meet?
AI-accelerated teams of the world’s best programmers will be tiny but create $100M/person in startup company value. How can UX keep up?
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 3, 202410 min read


UX Roundup: Mainstreaming UX | Learn Typography | Personal AI | More UX Jobs | UX Report Where?
Summary: UX as presented to the general public | Learn typography concepts through interactive exercises | Use AI for personal tasks, for...
Jakob Nielsen
May 27, 20247 min read