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Jakob Nielsen on UX
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UX Roundup: Workflow Redesign in Games Studios | Living Without AI | Learning With AI | Job-Specific Streaming Media | Integrating Voice & Pointing

2+ hour, 5+ min ago  (1605+ words) Summary: Case study of redesigning workflows for AI in computer game studios | Can you live 4 days without AI? | AI increases learning when used as a tutor and hurts when doing the exercises for the students | A streaming media platform for…...

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Jakob Nielsen on UX
jakobnielsenphd. substack. com > p > ai-history

The 80-Year History of AI

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1659+ words) Summary: Humans have been dreaming of thinking machines for more than 2, 700 years, but real work on building them started in 1943 with the first neural networks. Progress during the following 80 years was slow, with many disappointments and "AI Winters," but advances…...

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Jakob Nielsen on UX
jakobnielsenphd. substack. com > p > ux-roundup-20260511

UX Roundup: Moby Dick | AI Broadens Use Compared to Search | Dashboard Visualization | Tacit Knowledge | Design Engineer Fellowship

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (1690+ words) Summary: New music video based on Moby-Dick | AI expands users" tasks compared with traditional search, but provides narrower information results | AI dashboard visualizations help therapists spot trends hidden in session notes | How to elicit tacit knowledge to build AI workflows…...

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Jakob Nielsen on UX
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UX Roundup: User Research Game | AI Photo Recommendations | AI Helps TA | Teaching Metacognition | AI Shorts | 100 TW Compute | Happy Horse

2+ week, 2+ hour ago  (1757+ words) Summary: User researchers as role-playing game classes | AI posture recommendation feature in Huawei Pura 90 phones | AI helps teaching assistants provide better feedback to students | AI as a metacognitive coach | Recommending an entertaining short AI film | Space X's plan for 100 TW…...

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Jakob Nielsen on UX
jakobnielsenphd. substack. com > p > ux-roundup-20260427

UX Roundup: Claude Design | AI Does User Testing | AI Use Crosses 50% | GPT-Images-2 | GPT 5. 5 | Deep Seek 4

3+ week, 2+ hour ago  (1810+ words) Summary: Claude Design should be used differently than canvas-based design tools | AI conducts user testing and can now see what's happening on the screen | For the first time, more than 50% of employed Americans use AI at work | Open AI recaptures…...

Jakob Nielsen on UX
jakobnielsenphd. substack. com > p > ai-work-culture

Building an AI-Positive Work Culture

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (1598+ words) Summary: Employer encouragement predicts workplace AI adoption roughly 4x more strongly than training or tool provision alone. This 10-step playbook shows design leaders how to build a culture where AI adoption happens naturally, without mandates, surveillance, or wasted training budgets, while…...

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Jakob Nielsen on UX
jakobnielsenphd. substack. com > p > ux-roundup-20260420

UX Roundup: Auto-Translating Social Media | Bollywood AI | Context Reboarding | Agents Almost Equal Search | Headless Software | Not a Loser

4+ week, 2+ hour ago  (1715+ words) Summary: Translating social media posts by default makes online communities international | Indian film studios embrace AI | AI summaries rescue users from context decay | AI agents now account for almost as much website traffic as human search | Software customers demand agent-first…...

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Jakob Nielsen on UX
jakobnielsenphd. substack. com > p > ux-roundup-20260406

UX Roundup: Open AI Usability | Integrated Software | Seedance 2 vs. Kling 3 | Grok Imagine | Increasing AI Use

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1703+ words) Summary: Open AI to emphasize usability | Integrated software | Comparing multi-shot AI video models | Grok's image generation model receives an upgrade | AI use up in the workplace, and employees who use AI now worry less about losing their jobs to AI…...

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jakobnielsenphd. substack. com > p > remixing-content

Hamlet Remixed: Using AI to Convert Content into Alternative Formats

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1610+ words) Summary: AI can translate a single source across media, styles, and audience frames. That makes it possible to reuse core material in formats better suited to different platforms and audiences. Shakespeare's Hamlet serves here as a case study in a…...

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Jakob Nielsen on UX
jakobnielsenphd. substack. com > p > ux-roundup-20260330

UX Roundup: Apple 50 Years | AI UX Explained | Good AI Support | New Reasoning Image Model | AI Creativity | Suno 5. 5

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1731+ words) Summary: Apple Computer 50 years anniversary | The New UX for AI | Excellent AI support chat from Substack | New reasoning image model: Luma Uni-1 thinks through what to draw | AI is more creative than humans and will likely get even more creative…...

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