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UX Roundup: AI Editing | Speaking This Week | Bad Innovation | Faster Midjourney | Feeling Less Rushed | Improving International Collaboration | OpenAI o1

Jakob Nielsen

Sep 1611 min read

From AI generation to AI editing | Innovation can be harmful | Is Midjourney getting faster? | AI may make workers feel less time pressure

Jakob Nielsen

May 234 min read

Impact of Tokens on Image Generation

Removing and adding keywords in image prompting changes the generated images in unpredictable ways. Current prompt adherence is too weak.

Jakob Nielsen

Mar 2716 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: Portfolio Without Experience | AI-UX Course | Jakob on UX Greece | Test with 5 Users | ImageGen Shootout

Jakob Nielsen

Mar 187 min read

UX Roundup: Portfolio Without Experience | AI-UX Course | Jakob on UX Greece | Test with 5 Users | ImageGen Shootout

How to build a UX portfolio before getting your first UX job | Usability testing with 5 users: the comic strip

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: Animate Like Bugs | Animation Overload | Image Prompting | Social Media Likes

Jakob Nielsen

Jan 27 min read

UX Roundup: Animate Like Bugs | Animation Overload | Image Prompting | Social Media Likes

UX animations should emulate the cartoon physics of Bugs Bunny | AI animation overload looms | Most-liked UX postings on LinkedIn

SEO Is Dead, Long Live AI-Summarized Answers

Jakob Nielsen

Nov 8, 20237 min read

SEO Is Dead, Long Live AI-Summarized Answers

Unlike search, AI synthesizes a single clear answer from all available info, tailored to the user’s specific query and circumstances.

UX Roundup: IDEO Cut in Half | Dall-E Characters | AI New UI Paradigm

Jakob Nielsen

Nov 6, 20236 min read

UX Roundup: IDEO Cut in Half | Dall-E Characters | AI New UI Paradigm

Design firm IDEO cut half of staff since 2020 (most layoffs in 2023) | In analytics, define Overall Evaluation Criterion aligning w business

AI Visualizing AI: Beyond the Robot Stereotype

Jakob Nielsen

Nov 1, 20238 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

Oct 18, 202315 min read

Getting Started with AI for UX

Use generative-AI tools to support and enhance your UX skills — not to replace them. Start with small UX tasks, and watch out for bad advice

UX Roundup: GenAI Visual Shootout | Incremental Gains | Citation Analysis | A Real Recession

Jakob Nielsen

Oct 9, 20236 min read

UX Roundup: GenAI Visual Shootout | Incremental Gains | Citation Analysis | A Real Recession

GenAI Visual Shootout | Incremental Gains | Citation Analysis | A Real Recession

AI Helps Elite Consultants: Higher Productivity & Work Quality, Narrower Skills Gap

Jakob Nielsen

Sep 20, 20237 min read

AI Helps Elite Consultants: Higher Productivity & Work Quality, Narrower Skills Gap

Consultants at a top-3 company had 33% higher productivity and achieved a 40% quality gain when using AI.

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.

Jakob Nielsen

Aug 28, 20235 min read

UX News Roundup for August 28

UX News Roundup: A collection of recommended links with comments.

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.

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.

Operant Conditioning in Generative AI Image Creation

Jakob Nielsen

Jul 26, 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.

AI Generates Complex Text, Challenging Many Readers

Jakob Nielsen

Jul 6, 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.

4 Metaphors for Working with AI: Intern, Coworker, Teacher, Coach

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Generative AI Enhances Old Users’ Intellectual Performance Through Wise Winnowing

UX Needs a Sense of Urgency About AI

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