Jakob Nielsen on UX

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UX Roundup: Jakob Live | Jakob’s Interview Answers | Perplexity UX Fails | Build a Side Business | Instagram 1K
Live Internet event with Jakob this Thursday | Jakob answered a bunch of questions about the state of UX | Perplexity lets users down with two terrible…
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Declining ROI From UX Design Work
Diminishing returns for UX signal victory: usability battles have been won and the low-hanging fruit harvested.
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UX Roundup: 20K Subscribers | Voice Sound vs Character | Voice UI for Old Users | CoT Explaining AI | Ideogram Release 2a | Easy Avatars …
20,000 newsletter subscribers | Voice sound vs character | Voice UI for old users | Does chain-of-thought help users understand AI?
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Does User-Driven Design Still Need User-Centered Design?
Vibe coding places users in control of digital functionality. AI enables rapid, inexpensive design, so UX professionals must pivot.
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UX Roundup: Augmented Reality Glasses | AI Skills Development | Fuzzy Concept Search | AI Super-Thesaurus | Readability Levels | Microsoft…
Summary: Augmented reality glasses help blind users navigate world | Practice with AI to build lasting skills | AI for fuzzy concept searches | AI as a…
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Vibe Coding and Vibe Design
Summary: AI transforms software development and UX design through natural language intent specification.
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SEO & UX: Search Engine Optimization Best Practices
Search ranking manipulation has died; serving users has won.
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UX Roundup: Explainer Videos | AI Overload | AI Music | Over-Recuiting | Home Robots | GPT 4.5
AI stigma & SEO explainer videos | Overwhelmed by AI progress | AI music improves | Recruiting too many study participants to account for no-shows …
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February 2025

From PageRank to DeepRank: Attracting AI-Driven Traffic to Digital Properties
Summary: Search is losing ground to AI fast.
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Claude Sonnet 3.7 Compared with Previous AI Models
A major upgrade to Anthropic’s AI foundation model was just released. In my testing, Sonnet 3.7 didn’t just perform better than the previous version of…
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UX Roundup: Film Festival | AI Therapy | AI Radiology | AI Creative Writing | Grok 3
AI film festival | AI as good as human therapists | AI beats human radiologists | AI Creative Writing Test: GPT 4o vs. OpenAI Deep Research | Grok 3…
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Hello AI Agents: Goodbye UI Design, RIP Accessibility
Autonomous agents will transform user experience by automating interactions, making traditional UI design obsolete, as users stop visiting websites in…
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