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Jakob Nielsen

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UX Roundup: Skewed AI Use | Reviewing AI Results | Writing & Design | Losing Users’ Work | Autofill | Hover Effects | Time Gains | Asking What You Know | Multilingual Video | CAPTCHA | Social Presence

Summary: Superusers use AI 15× the norm | Checking AI’s work is becoming a burden | Uniting writing and design | Respect the user’s work above all | The form that fills itself | Fingers can’t hover | Main AI benefit is saving time | Don’t a...

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3 AI Interaction Styles: Turn-Taking, Task Agents, Always-On

Summary: In under 4 years, AI has acquired 3 interaction styles: Turn-Taking AI answers the questions you ask, Task Agents finish the jobs you assign, and Always-on Agents fill the roles you appoint them to and start work on their own. The...

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UX Roundup: CAPTCHA | Undo | Robotaxi Safety | Better Usability for Educational AI | Scrolljacking | Floating Action Button | Long Forms | Secondary vs. Primary Features | Picture Superiority

Summary: Too easy to fail CAPTCHA verification | Rethinking undo for the AI age | Waymo gets 25% safer every year, a crawl for AI but a sprint for cars | Students disliked the AI tutoring style that’s likely best for learning | Scrolling be...

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UX Roundup: Erik the Red | AI Thematic Analysis | Nano Banana 2.1 | Scrolling | Fast Asymptote in AI Skills | Average Users | Wishlists | Usability Testing Without Findings | Naming Consistency

Summary: How Erik the Red discovered Greenland | AI now codes user comments as well as UX researchers do | Google’s Nano Banana 2.1 is only a marginal upgrade | Scrolling imposes a memory load if related items are far apart | Users quickly...

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Behavioral Economics & UX: Design for Irrational Humans

Summary: People don’t decide the way classical economics assumes. They take mental shortcuts and follow seemingly irrational rules that were tuned for survival in the Paleolithic, not for pricing pages. This article distills the key behavio...

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  • Jakob Nielsen

    Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., is a UX pioneer. He founded the discount usability movement and formulated Jakob’s Law of Internet User Experience. He's written 8 books, holds 79 US patents, and received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Achievement Award.

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