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Updated 1 min ago · 20 articles from Nielsen Norman Group

Nielsen Norman Group Oct 30, 5:00 PM

The Role of UX in Agentic Software Factories

AI-native software development lifecycles reduce UX to AI context. UX must discover user needs, shape what’s built, and evaluate it before and after launch.

Nielsen Norman Group Oct 30, 5:00 PM

Experience Design: Dropping the “User” from “User Experience”

AI is expanding UX beyond human users to agents acting on their behalf. Experience design names this broader field, which still centers on people’s goals.

Nielsen Norman Group Oct 23, 5:00 PM

UX Disciplines: Glossary

Definitions of fields related to user experience, including UX design, UI design, visual design, interaction design, service design, UX research, and DesignOps

Nielsen Norman Group Oct 23, 5:00 PM

AI in UX: Work Is Faster, But Practitioners Have Mixed Feelings

AI saves UX practitioners time on nearly every task, yet most feel lukewarm about it: mandates, unreliable output, and inflated expectations eat the gains.

Nielsen Norman Group Oct 16, 5:00 PM

Synthetic Users vs. Human Respondents: Same Conclusion, Less Variation

Data from AI-generated respondents pointed to the same conclusion as a survey of 604 humans but contained far fewer distinct answers.

Nielsen Norman Group Oct 16, 5:00 PM

UX Maps: Glossary

Use this glossary to quickly clarify key terms and concepts related to UX maps.

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Nielsen Norman Group Oct 9, 5:00 PM

The New Siri’s Biggest Strength Is Not Intelligence

A useful AI assistant needs relevant personal context, the capability to use it, and an experience that helps users understand its limits.

Nielsen Norman Group Oct 9, 5:00 PM

Context Libraries: How AI Power Users Manage Context Engineering

Claude power users rarely edit their context files and often can’t find them. Your AI agent is only as powerful as its context library.

Nielsen Norman Group Oct 2, 5:00 PM

Empathy Mapping: The First Step in Design Thinking

Empathy maps help UX teams visualize user attitudes and behaviors, building a shared understanding of end users while highlighting gaps in existing user data.

Nielsen Norman Group Oct 2, 5:00 PM

The New Big Ball of Mud: Why Agentic AI Systems Turn Fragile

AI makes building nearly free, so users grow agentic systems piecemeal into fragile messes they no longer understand.

Nielsen Norman Group Sep 25, 5:00 PM

How AI Works and How Users Think About It: Study Guide

Unsure where to start? Use this collection of links to our articles and videos to learn about how artificial intelligence works, and how users think about it.

Nielsen Norman Group Sep 25, 5:00 PM

When Should You Disclose AI Use? The PACED Framework

How people react to being told that AI helped create a piece of content varies with audience, context, the nature and degree of AI use.