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Jakob Nielsen
Personal blog · uxtigers.com/postdesignai
Jakob Nielsen writes UX Tigers, a personal blog at uxtigers.com about design and ai. Since 2023, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Classic Usability Important for AI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
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.
Most-linked posts?
- Classic Usability Important for AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-11-23
- The Articulation Barrier: Prompt-Driven AI UX Hurts Usability2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-27
What Hacker News says?
There was a study that found that, in radiology, human-first assessment resulted in worse outcomes that human-alone. Possibly the human's letting borderline cases through, on the assumption that the machine will catch them. There's a roundup of such findings here, but they're a mixed bag: https://www.uxtigers.com/post/humans-negative-value I suspect you need careful process design to get better outcomes, and it's no…
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on “AI misses nearly one-third of breast cancers, study finds”Submitted 41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective as a story · 135 points
HN discussion> Roughly half of people in most developed countries are not functionally articulate Where did you get this idea? I found this article ( https://www.uxtigers.com/post/ai-articulation-barrier , is this you?), but it makes a leap from literacy to articulacy that I don't understand. It's not obvious to me why an illiterate person would be "functionally inarticulate" assuming they can speak instead of write. Also, I'm n…
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on “First Impressions with GPT-4V(ision)”Submitted The Articulation Barrier: Prompt-Driven AI UX Hurts Usability as a story · 36 points
HN discussionAs an example, I find the AI-generated "slop images in Jakob Nielsen's UX blog quite annoying and distractng. https://www.uxtigers.com/post/ux-roundup-20260504 https://www.uxtigers.com/post/ux-roundup-20260504
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on “What Makes Art Great?”Submitted History of the Graphical User Interface: The Rise (and Fall?) Of WIMP Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI is the first new UI paradigm in years as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Service as a Software as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Is More Creative Than 99% of Humans on One Metric as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Generative UI from Gemini 3 Pro as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted No More User Interface? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agency in the Age of AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Classic Usability Important for AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Accessibility Has Failed: Try Generative UI = Individualized UX as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Classic Usability Important for AI as a story · 1 points
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