AI in UX: Work Is Faster, but Practitioners Have Mixed Feelings
A Nielsen Norman Group survey of 521 UX practitioners found near-universal access to generative AI tools (over 99%) and that AI saves time on nearly every task, with an average time-savings rating of 4.2 out of 5. Practitioner sentiment was only mildly positive (3.57 out of 5), with 69% of open-ended commenters expressing some negative sentiment, often about mandates and unreliable output. Agentic AI use ranged from 85% at startups to 36% at nonprofits. AI use was highest for desk-based work and lowest for work involving users.
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A Nielsen Norman Group survey of 521 UX practitioners found near-universal access to generative AI tools (over 99%) and that AI saves time on nearly every task, with an average time-savings rating of 4.2 out of 5. Practitioner sentiment was only mildly positive (3.57 out of 5), with 69% of open-ended commenters expressing some negative sentiment, often about mandates and unreliable output. Agentic AI use ranged from 85% at startups to 36% at nonprofits. AI use was highest for desk-based work and lowest for work involving users.
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- Over 99% of respondents had access to generative AI tools, but 59% used only an approved set of tools.
- Output quality (54%) and data privacy or security (50%) were the most-cited barriers to AI adoption.
- AI was used most for writing code, desk research, and analyzing research data, and least for user-facing work.
- Average sentiment about AI at work was mildly positive at 3.57 out of 5, with 69% of commenters expressing some negative sentiment.
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