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UX Roundup: ElevenLabs Podcast | Usability Guidelines as Figma Plugin | AI Kills Companies | o1 and o1 Pro

Jakob Nielsen

Dec 98 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

Nov 277 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.

AI Increases Creativity in Writing Fiction and Narrows the Creativity Gap Between Authors

Jakob Nielsen

Aug 15 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...

UX Roundup: UX Portfolios | Linkrot | Midjourney User Testing | AI-Sourced Articles | Cheaper AI

Jakob Nielsen

Jun 106 min read

UX Roundup: UX Portfolios | Linkrot | Midjourney User Testing | AI-Sourced Articles | Cheaper AI

Target UX portfolios at busy hiring managers | Linkrot eats away at Web connectivity | Midjourney to start usability testing

Specification Lists Have Terrible Usability

Jakob Nielsen

Jan 263 min read

Specification Lists Have Terrible Usability

Dissecting the anatomy of specification sheets on ecommerce platforms. Using Amazon as a case study to illustrate common pitfalls.

Jakob Nielsen

Jan 1211 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.

UX Roundup: 100K LinkedIn Followers | Jakob & ADPList | AI UI Beyond Chat | UX Writing & AI

Jakob Nielsen

Dec 11, 20238 min read

UX Roundup: 100K LinkedIn Followers | Jakob & ADPList | AI UI Beyond Chat | UX Writing & AI

How Jakob gained 100,000 followers on LinkedIn | AI model answers UX questions | Write like a machine, think like a human.

UX Roundup: OpenAI Debacle | Productive AI in UX | Better Headlines | Faster Horses | Solo UXer

Jakob Nielsen

Nov 27, 20238 min read

UX Roundup: OpenAI Debacle | Productive AI in UX | Better Headlines | Faster Horses | Solo UXer

Summary: Implications of the near-disaster at OpenAI | Improving productivity of UX work by using AI | Writing good headlines for UX...

UX Roundup: User Retention Metrics | UX Writing | Kano Model | Mobile First Harmful | UX Soloist

Jakob Nielsen

Oct 16, 20236 min read

UX Roundup: User Retention Metrics | UX Writing | Kano Model | Mobile First Harmful | UX Soloist

Most companies use wrong user metrics to measure retention. Mobile-First design bad for desktop users. Professional growth for solo UXera.

UX News: AI User Behaviors | Brevity | My vs. Your | Design for Legacy | Screentime for Toddlers

Jakob Nielsen

Sep 24, 20235 min read

UX News: AI User Behaviors | Brevity | My vs. Your | Design for Legacy | Screentime for Toddlers

UX News for Sept 25: AI user behaviors, UX writing, design for legacy systems, screen exposure and childhood development

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.

Automated Content Strategy and Tone-of-Voice Metrics

Jakob Nielsen

Aug 23, 202310 min read

Automated Content Strategy and Tone-of-Voice Metrics

AI tools analyze large volumes of content & provide metrics like readability, style, & sentiment. Track content quality at scale, over time.

The Articulation Barrier: Prompt-Driven AI UX Hurts Usability

Jakob Nielsen

May 24, 20236 min read

The Articulation Barrier: Prompt-Driven AI UX Hurts Usability

Prompts for intent-based outcomes require users to be articulate in writing prose, which is a challenge for half of the population.

Design Leaders Should Go “Founder Mode”

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

Dark Design Patterns Catalog

UX Angst of 2023-24

Jakob’s Law of the Internet User Experience

Ideation Is Free: AI Exhibits Strong Creativity, But AI-Human Co-Creation Is Better

The 10 Usability Heuristics Reimagined

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