

Don’t Design for Average Users
Summary : The average user is a terrible design target for digital products. High-end “Whale” users in the 95th or 99th percentile of usage volume (P95 or P99) have different needs and often generate dramatically more business value than the masses of low-end users that hit the P50 median usage metrics. The P95/P50 ratio ranges from 3 to 100 (or higher), depending on domain characteristics, leading to different recommended design strategies. Averages flatten reality. In pro
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 1918 min read


UX Roundup: User Testing | AI Ads | Users Like AI | Multiple Analytics Experiments | Low-Fi Prototyping | AI for User Research
Summary : User Testing 12-step process | AI advertisements outperformed human-created ads | Users give high NPS scores to the main AI...
Jakob Nielsen
Sep 15, 202512 min read


UX Roundup: 20K Subscribers | Voice Sound vs Character | Voice UI for Old Users | CoT Explaining AI | Ideogram Release 2a | Easy Avatars | Track AI in Analytics | Gemini Images
Newsletter subscribers | Voice sound vs character | Voice UI for old users | Does chain-of-thought help users form mental models of AI?
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 17, 202515 min read


UX Roundup: Luxury Usability | User Testing, the Movie | AI = Ozempic | Better Analytics | Job Hunt Advice | Design Similarity
Summary: Luxury websites have bad usability | Poster fail: User testing, the movie | AI is Ozempic for the company | Is Microsoft Clarity...
Jakob Nielsen
Apr 29, 20248 min read


A/B Testing Paradox: UX Maturity Reduces Your Gains
A dataset of 74 A/B tests shows average KPI lifts of 0.2% from the statistically-significant experiments. This produced ROI of 620%.
Jakob Nielsen
Mar 13, 20245 min read


UX Roundup: Free UX Books | DoD Does Well | Design for Anthropomorphism | Overall Evaluation
11 books about UX for free download | US Department of Defense AI deployment plan | Design UX for the fact that users anthropomorphize AI
Jakob Nielsen
Nov 20, 20234 min read
