Jakob Nielsen
Dec 26, 20244 min read
Top 10 UX Images of 2024
Summary : These are the best images published in Jakob Nielsen’s articles during 2024. Three different AI image-generating tools were...
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 16, 20249 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 11, 202410 min read
UX Roundup: AI Follow-Up Questions in Usability Studies | Top UX Evaluation Methods | AI Use in UX | Keep Users in the Flow | New Grok Image Model
Summary : AI can ask follow-up questions in usability sessions | The top 3 UX evaluation methods | AI use in UX | New hybrid UI for AI...
Jakob Nielsen
Oct 7, 202411 min read
UX Roundup: OpenAI Canvas | Evaluating AI Video | AI Podcast | AI Translation | AI Adoption & Retention | Flux 1.1
OpenAI Canvas heralds hybrid UI for AI | Evaluating AI video models in pairwise quality comparisons | AI-created podcast | AI translation
Jakob Nielsen
Sep 9, 20245 min read
UX Roundup: UX Leadership Templates | Old Users | Bilingual AI | Wireframes | UX Tarot | AI Course
UX leadership templates | Designing for old users | Use AI to ideate bilingual content | Benefits of wireframes for early UI design
Jakob Nielsen
Sep 3, 202410 min read
UX Roundup: Jakob Live | AI in Education | Bill Gates on AI | Midjourney Styles | Flux Versions Compared
Summary : Jakob live on Internet Sept. 19 | AI helps education but teachers are poorly supported | Bill Gates thinks AI is easy |...
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 24, 20249 min read
UX Roundup: Top AI Consumer Services | Ideogram 2.0 | Midjourney for All | Amazon AI
Summary : Top 50 AI consumer services | Ideogram launches upgraded version 2.0 | Midjourney’s web user interface finally available to all...
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 19, 202412 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 12, 20247 min read
UX Roundup: Hindsight Bias | Rubric for Insightful AI | User-Contributed Photos | Black Forest AI
Stakeholders deem UX work to be “obvious” | Rubric for scoring insightful use of AI | Make it easy to see all user-contributed photos
Jakob Nielsen
Aug 5, 202411 min read
UX Roundup: AI Empathy | Submit Buttons | European Job Changes | Runway AI Video | Writing Questions for User Research | Leonardo Sold | Midjourney New Release
AI shows more empathy than human doctors | “Submit” considered harmful | Europe too slow for AI | Prompt AI for user research questions
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 22, 202410 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 8, 202410 min read
UX Roundup: Survey Response Options | Ideogram | Deepfaking User Test Videos | AI IA | LDM = Large Design Model | Web History | AI Writes 10% of Science Papers
Discrete response options best measure users’ subjective satisfaction | Disguising test users | Shopify AI helps merchants' IA | LDM GenUI
Jakob Nielsen
Jul 1, 20249 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
Jun 17, 20249 min read
UX Roundup: UX Superhero | Pivot to AI-UX | Luma Dream Machine | Midjourney Niji | Apple AI | Leonardo Phoenix
When UX professionals gain superpowers | UX-STRAT conference pivots to AI-driven future | Luma Dream Machine generates better AI video
Jakob Nielsen
May 23, 20244 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
May 20, 20247 min read
UX Roundup: Prompting for Music Styles | Combining AI Tools | Style Randomization
Summary: Music prompting harder than image prompting | Combining up to 8 different AI tools into a single task workflow | Midjourney...
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 18, 20247 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
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 4, 20248 min read
UX Roundup: Ideogram Big Improvements | UX Apprentice | High School UX | Kindergarten UX | Self-Taught UX Designers
Ideogram 1.0 huge improvements in text rendering + image quality | You don’t need a university degree to do UX | Self-taught UX designers
Jakob Nielsen
Jan 4, 202412 min read
Curating AI-Generated Images
In an AI-saturated future, true design skill lies not in creation but in the art of choice. Case study: human judgment of 4 AI-generated pix
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 15, 20234 min read
Generating Persistent Characters: Still Too Difficult
Generative AI for images does not draw the same characters with the same appearance in different illustrations, as needed for personas.