

UX Roundup: Cookie Banners Waste Time | Building AI Infrastructure | Bigger AI Training Clusters | AI Avatar Keynote Summary | Virtual Try-On
Cookie banners waste 575 M hours of European users’ time annually | Jensen Huang on AI infrastructure | AI training clusters keep growing
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 2, 20249 min read


UX Roundup: Design Metrics | Users Don’t Like to Read | Kids and Dark Design | Chinese Design | Single Name Field | Stop CAPTCHA | Nuclear Google
Design metrics that measure user value | Users don’t like to read | Children’s awareness of dark design patterns | Why Chinese design looks
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 21, 20248 min read


UX Roundup: Nagging UI Reminders | Typeface Manga | Little Tech | Form Fields | AI Conference | Midjourney IQ | Grok 2
Nagging UI reminders become a dark design pattern | Typeface manga | Number of fields on web forms | Image quality vs scene quality
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 19, 202412 min read


UX Roundup: 10 UX Insights | Dark Design | Y Oslo | Low-Latency Voice | Movie Posters | Hero Videos
Top 10 foundational UX insights | 76% of online services use dark design patterns | Low-latency voice communication | Video as hero images
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 12, 20247 min read


UX Roundup: UX Secrets | Figma AI | AI Style Variation | Dark AI | Respect for UX | User Research & AI | Claude 3.5
No secrets in UX | Figma GenUI | Image stylistic variations in generative AI | AI used for dark design | How to get respect for UX
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 1, 20249 min read


UX Roundup: First Mouse | Dark AI | AI Spend Grows | Most Drivers Think They’re Above Average | 4 Clicks = 4 AI Models
First computer mouse in museum | Beware dark AI design | 293% y/y growth in companies’ AI spend | Most drivers think they’re above average
Jakob Nielsen
Jun 3, 202417 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 5, 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


UX Roundup: AI-First Design | Dark Design | Non-Deterministic UX | Jakob Live | User Research Job
AI-First Products | Dark Design | Perplexity AI
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 29, 20245 min read


Dark Design Patterns Catalog
India outlawed 12 common dark design patterns. These sneaky practices are unethical applications of established UX knowledge to harm users.
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 6, 20239 min read


Is Amazon.com Guilty of Dark UX Patterns? Jakob Nielsen’s Hot Take on the FTC Lawsuit
UX analysis of the FTC lawsuit accusing Amazon.com of employing dark design patterns in its subscribe and unsubscribe workflows.
Jakob Nielsen
Jun 22, 202311 min read