

UX Roundup: Film Festival | AI Therapy | AI Radiology | AI Creative Writing | Grok 3
AI film festival | AI as good as human therapists | AI beats human radiologists | AI Creative Writing Test | Grok 3 launched
Jakob Nielsen
Feb 2412 min read


UX Roundup: ElevenLabs Podcast | Usability Guidelines as Figma Plugin | AI Kills Companies | o1 and o1 Pro
New podcast creation | Figma Plugin with UX design guidelines | Traditional company business models disrupted by AI | New AI models
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 9, 20248 min read


Better AI Creative Writing?
The creative writing abilities of ChatGPT have improved a little, as shown by a small experiment in two genres: poetry & children’s stories.
Jakob Nielsen
Nov 27, 20247 min read


Strong AI Creativity
Summary : AI is reshaping the landscape of creativity and innovation. AI outperforms humans in both general ideation and the production...
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 17, 20249 min read


AI Increases Creativity in Writing Fiction and Narrows the Creativity Gap Between Authors
Summary: AI transforms creativity, lifting every writer’s potential, as measured in a new study of people writing short fictional stories...
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 1, 20245 min read


UX Roundup: LEGO Labs | Mockup UX Book | Revisiting Futurism | Cheap AI Enables New Services | Prompt Roles | Mistral 2 | Kling | Good AI Animation | Design Highest GPA
Lessons from LEGO’s Creative Play Lab | What new products and services can be built with 10x or 10 less investment needed because of AI?
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 29, 202415 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 25, 20248 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 8, 20246 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.
Jakob Nielsen
Feb 22, 20248 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.
Jakob Nielsen
Feb 1, 20248 min read


The 3 Ages of Authorship and Creation
Oral tradition, writing and printing, and newly developing human-AI co-created media differ along multiple dimensions.
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 12, 202411 min read


AI Visualizing AI: Beyond the Robot Stereotype
AI creativity tested by challenging 3 leading generative models to conceptualize “artificial intelligence” without resorting to robots.
Jakob Nielsen
Nov 1, 20238 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.
Jakob Nielsen
Sep 6, 20237 min read


UX News: Infant Screen Use | UX Salaries Drop | UX Haikus | Single-Word Prompts | AI Awareness
UX News: Infant Screen Use | UX Salaries Drop | UX Haikus | Single-Word Prompts | AI Awareness
Jakob Nielsen
Sep 4, 202310 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.
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 18, 202321 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 9, 202311 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.
Jakob Nielsen
Jun 28, 202310 min read