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The 10 Usability Heuristics in Cartoons
Finally, what you have been waiting for: a humorous take on Jakob Nielsen’s classic 10 usability heuristics explained in 80 cartoons.
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The Meaning of Usability Explained in Creative Writing
Usability goes beyond simplicity; it's a dialogue between design and user, built on subtlety, emotional insight, and cognitive understanding.
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UX Roundup: Midjourney Usability Atrocity | AI Drives Traffic | Lip Synch Improvements | Progress in AI Music | You ≠ User
Midjourney doubles down on usability atrocity | AI drives website traffic | Improvements in lip synch for AI avatar videos | AI music improves with Suno…
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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 | New…
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Usability Labs: Cool or Old School?
Richly illustrated historical overview of the transformation of usability labs from dedicated spaces to Zoom calls, raising questions about the future…
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Jakob’s Law of the Internet User Experience
Summary: Users spend most of their time on other websites, so they expect your site to work like all the other sites they already know. When a design…
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Classic Usability Important for AI
AI products are fraught with basic usability errors, violating decades-old UX findings. Simple fixes will save AI users much pain, but AI companies…
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What Is UX? (Part 1 of 2 of Jakob Nielsen’s UX Basics Article)
Summary: The information everybody should know about user experience, defining and explaining the terminology.
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The Need for Speed in AI
Summary: AI tools need much faster response times to meet human demands, which remain unaltered from previous UI paradigms: subsecond results are ideal…
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The 10 Usability Heuristics Reimagined
The 10 usability heuristics are the bedrock of UX, encapsulating the most critical design issues that make a user interface difficult or easy to use. I…
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The Articulation Barrier: Prompt-Driven AI UX Hurts Usability
Generative AI systems like ChatGPT use prose prompts for intent-based outcomes, requiring users to be articulate in writing prose, which is a challenge…
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Is Amazon.com Guilty of Dark UX Patterns?
Jakob Nielsen’s Hot Take on the FTC Lawsuit
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