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2024

The Articulation Barrier: Prompt-Driven AI UX Hurts Usability. Jakob Nielsen: “Generative AI systems like ChatGPT use prose prompts for intent-based outcomes, requiring users to be articulate in writing prose, which is a challenge for half of the population in rich countries.”

# 27th January 2024, 3:49 pm / jakob-nielsen, usability, ai, generative-ai, llms

2019

The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (via) Research from 2016: “Across 33 rich countries, only 5% of the population has high computer-related abilities, and only a third of people can complete medium-complexity tasks”

# 23rd September 2019, 2:49 pm / jakob-nielsen, usability

2007

In 1997, I chose to suppress a similar finding: users tend to click on banner ads that look like dialog boxes, complete with fake OK and Cancel buttons.

Jakob Nielsen

# 21st August 2007, 6:34 pm / bannerads, coverup, jakob-nielsen, usability

2004

User Education Is Not the Answer to Security Problems. Smart thinking on security from Jakob Nielsen.

# 1st November 2004, 1:22 pm / jakob-nielsen, security, usability

Design Eye for the Usability Guy. Jakob Nielsen gets the makeover of a life time.

# 19th May 2004, 3:31 pm / jakob-nielsen, usability