Artificial Intelligence Articles & Videos

  • You're Not Too Late to Use AI

    Manage your AI anxiety with two quick tips: small experiments and a news diet. Experiment with day-to-day communication and drafting with AI, as integrating AI into your research process. To avoid news overwhelm, subscribe to three weekly sources of information: a newsletter, an optimistic writing source, and a skeptical writing source.

  • AI Isn't Ready for UX Design

    Our research and evaluation show that there are currently few design-specific AI tools that meaningfully enhance UX design workflows. As of Spring 2024, AI isn’t ready for designers to take advantage of them.

  • AI on Intranets: 5 Valuable Features

    NN/g’s 2023 Intranet Design Annual winners used AI for chatbots, tool recommendations, career guides, virtual assistants, and personalized communications to boost productivity.

  • ELIZA Effect: Why We Fall in Love with AI

    The ELIZA effect describes users' tendency to quickly attribute human characteristics to artificial systems when the interaction feels human-like. This is why people fall in love with AI.

  • Not All UX Trends Are Right for You

    It can be tempting to follow the next big UX trend. Before adopting a UX trend, we must evaluate how the trend will support users and impact our workflows.

  • The Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and User Experience

    Do AI products have good user experience? Only partly, and to get better, we need to focus AI more on human needs than on what's technically possible. But AI can also help UX professionals do their job better, which will improve usability more widely.

  • AI & Machine Learning Will Change UX Research & Design

    At the virtual UX Conference, Jakob Nielsen was asked "How will AI and Machine Learning affect UX Research & Design?"

  • How Today's UX Designs May Be Perceived in the Future

    Jakob Nielsen answers the question of how people in the future will judge the quality of today's user experience.

  • Is Aggressive Marketing Influencing the UX of AI Agents?

    Jakob Nielsen answers the question of how users' perception of artificial intelligence products and their user experience may be impacted by the way these services are promoted by vendors.

  • Intelligent Assistants: Where We Are and Where We Should Be

    Are Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant truly intelligent? While they do have some "intelligent" features, they are still far from what people expect such an intelligent assistant to do.

  • Exciting Times Ahead for UX (Don Norman)

    New technologies such as autonomous cars, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Augmented Reality (AR) mean exciting challenges for UX to solve.

  • Is UX Getting Better or Worse? (Jakob Nielsen Keynote)

    Each UI generation often takes two steps forward, then one step back. Even as new technologies emerge (e.g., Artificial Intelligence (AI) and speech recognition), knowing established UX guidelines will help you avoid missteps. This was Jakob Nielsen's keynote at the UX Conference in Copenhagen.

  • Human Technology Teamwork: The Role of Machines and Humans in Good UX Design (Don Norman)

    Design technology to be a collaborator—a team worker. Allow people to do what they are good at rather than force them to act like machines.

  • AI's Impact on New Technologies

    Jakob Nielsen answers an audience question about artificial intelligence and its impact on new technologies.