AI’s impact on job prospects for junior vs. senior employees | Founder Mode | Learn AI-First design | Secondary user research | Comparing avatars animated with HeyGen and Chinese AI tool Wan| UX Tigers
User testing is straightforward, but it involves many moving parts, making it best to have a systematic process for planning and executing studies, as well as ensuring follow-up.| UX Tigers
Corkboard mockup of project history | Are promotions profitable or not? | Making a short AI film | Auto-creating music based on a video | AI is becoming the norm for online shoppers in the United States | High AI adoption among entry-level employees in poor and middle-income countries | Google’s new Nano Banana image editing model | Microsoft releases T2V model that generates emotional speech| UX Tigers
AI is surging from early-adopter novelty to everyday utility. Yet this transition is uneven across countries and use cases. In some cases, AI has already crossed Geoffrey Moore’s famed chasm between visionary early adopters and the pragmatic early majority, whereas in other cases, AI diffusion is much slower.| UX Tigers
Summary : User interfaces for human interaction will be replaced by AI agents | Quantitative user research methods made easy | Use AI to...| UX Tigers
Summary: AI transforms UX into exploration-based discovery. Users will navigate latent solution spaces rather than specifying outcomes....| UX Tigers
Rethinking workflows for AI | Lowering the barrier to creating content with AI | NotebookLM automatically creates a slideshow from an article | Changing the wording of questions in standard surveys | The market will support multiple AI models| UX Tigers
UX metaphors help users learn new interfaces by transferring knowledge from familiar concepts. They bridge designers’ conceptual models with users’ mental models through analogical reasoning, mapping multiple attributes between source and target domains.| UX Tigers
GPT 5 put to the test: Explain UXD and UXR to a 5-year-old | AI in Education | AI makes repositories of old user research findings more useful | AI summaries cannibalize clickthrough from web searches | The journey map is not the territory of user actions | Patients reveal more to clinical AI than when talking with human physicians | Response time matters for AI usability | Leading the participants in a usability study| UX Tigers
Summary: A storybook that metaphorically explains minimalist design through pictures and a story. Storytelling is more memorable and...| UX Tigers
Many UX designers are still in denial about AI | The 3 different types of AI use in companies, and their implications for your career | AI does mathematics differently than humans| UX Tigers
Qualitative research is your only path to design improvement. Watching users struggle reveals solutions; surveys and metrics don’t. Testing with 5 users enables rapid iteration: test, fix, repeat.| UX Tigers
Summary : Usability testing as theater | Too many applications | Less Is More | Illustrations vs. photos | Love the problem, not your...| UX Tigers
Summary: Users encounter usability annoyances daily in their computer use. Sometimes annoyances can be sidestepped at the cost of extra...| UX Tigers
New tech capabilities create the opportunity for people to do new things | Breadcrumbs | Use ChatGPT image mode to create viral thumbnails | Startup companies increasingly being driven by AI | Enterprise AI | Changing from design thinking to design doing| UX Tigers
4 AI models competed to use the Manga comic book format to tell the story of how to pivot your AI career for AI. See which manga you like the best. All succeeded in condensing a long theoretical article into a few engaging pages, reducing the word count by 94%.| UX Tigers
The Simplicity Poof | Error prevention explained by Vikings | AI in education | Heuristic Evaluation with AI | UX career pivot | AI was 4x better than human doctors at diagnosing complex cases | Grok 4 sets new record for AI subscription pricing | Advances in AI Video| UX Tigers
Cultivate your ability to effect change actively rather than reacting passively. Human agency with the courage to do something new, without being told, will separate the designers of the future from the assembly-line workers of the past, and the empowered learner from the spoon-fed student.| UX Tigers
Herds of UX unicorns | Captcha Must Die | Supporting the Flow state | If it feels like dark design, it probably is | HeyGen’s Avatar IV worked better with a photorealistic avatar than a cartoon character| UX Tigers
Being mentioned in AI answers is the new share-of-voice for brands and influencers. Being ignored by AI is like being on page 5 of a Google SERP in the old days.| UX Tigers
Users posting sticky note reminders = bad usability | Performative privacy vs. practical privacy | Response time delays: Endlessly watching the spinner | Jakob’s fireside chat at Dovetail’s Insight Out conference | Words rule the web| UX Tigers
UX Tigers is your tiger team for user experience insights, serving the worldwide UX community, with Jakob Nielsen's new articles, often about the intersection of UX and AI.| UX Tigers
User targeting in UX has progressed through 5 stages : target audience, personas, customization, personalization, AI individualization, using Generative UI (GenUI).| UX Tigers
Generative AI tools often produce text at high reading levels, posing difficulty for low-literacy users. Specifying lower reading levels in the prompt can go wrong, making a copy review imperative before publishing.| UX Tigers
Jakob Nielsen has worked in user experience since 1983. Much changed, including moving from academia to practice but the mission remains!| UX Tigers
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 deviates from users’ expectations, usability suffers. Don’t be arrogant and assume that your new design idea is so brilliant that it can overrule decades of user habituation.| UX Tigers
Many people have published great new ways of explaining Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics which are the bedrock of UX, encapsulating the most critical design issues that make a user interface difficult or easy to use.| UX Tigers