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Inactive GUI Controls: Show, Disable, or Hide?
Three design patterns exist for inactive UI commands: showing them as normal commands with an error message if clicked, a visibly disabled state, or…
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UX Roundup: AI Music | Humans Impolite to AI | Subscriptions vs. Social Media | AI vs. Search
Experimenting with same song in different genres | Humans impolite to AI, which needs to be reflected in training data | Subscriptions beat social media…
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Jakob Nielsen
When Humans Add Negative Value: AI Alone vs. Human–AI Synergy
The prevailing “human in the loop” paradigm for AI use must die or be drastically reduced.
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UX Roundup: Long-Running AI | Consistency | What AI to Use | AI Anxiety | AI Helps Blind Users | NPS
UX for long-running AI tasks | Consistent user interface design | What are the best AI models to use now | AI anxiety in the workplace | AI helps blind…
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Jakob Nielsen

October 2025

Estimating AI’s Rate of Progress with UX Design and Research Methods
When can AI replace UX designers?
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UX Roundup: Usability Halloween | Score Secondary Research | AI UI Ideas | Heuristic Evaluation with AI
Usability Halloween | Study Similarity Score to assess the relevance of secondary research | 23 design ideas to improve AI UI | Using AI to conduct…
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UX must alleviate the cognitive burden of time
Next-generation AI-UX design must deliver human handoff harmony, with seamless transitions between machine execution and user cognition that recognize…
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UX Roundup: Latent Affordances | Automating Competence | Entry-Level UXR Job | Direct Manipulation | One-Shot AI Slideshow | Veo 3.1 | $100M…
Latent affordances | Automating best-practice dissemination by having AI learn from top staff | Entry-level user researcher job opening at LEGO | Direct…
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Slow AI: Designing User Control for Long Tasks
Batch processing returns as AI agents run for hours or days, eliminating traditional turn-taking interaction. Slow AI creates control and observability…
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UX Roundup: Email UX | Sora 2 | AI New Business Capabilities | AI Consumer Surplus | Latent Affordances | Ambient Clinical AI
Email user experience | New video model Sora 2 compared with older models | AI offering new business capabilities instead of just replacing old jobs …
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Jakob Nielsen

September 2025

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