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December 2025

The Year in Image Generation
For each month of 2025, here is the best image I made that month. The collection shows the progress of AI-generated images over the year, in terms of…
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UX Roundup: 2025 Predictions Revisited | AI Paradigm Shifts | AI and Doctor Burnout | Useful AI Sells
Predictions for UX in 2025 revisited | 2025 saw major paradigm changes in AI | Simple AI reduces doctors’ burnout | Fast sales growth for providers of…
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2025 Year in Review: Themes, Trends, Status, Top 10 Articles
AI disrupted UX practice across multiple vectors: research methodology, interface ontology, temporal dynamics, economic structures, and distribution…
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UX Roundup: How People Use AI | AI Does User Research | Founding Designers | Prompt Engineering | AI Agent Use Cases | Electricity Fuels AI…
Summary: How People Use AI for professional and creative jobs | AI conducts user interviews at scale, converting qualitative quotes to quant data | When…
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2025 in AI Video (Featuring My Top 10)
AI video models advanced significantly in 2025, particularly in avatar expressiveness, enabling me to produce much better videos than in 2024.
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UX Roundup: AI Empathy | Transparency About Compute Limits | UI Modes | Seedream 4.5 | AI In/Out of Silicon Valley | Kling Speaks
AI exhibits better empathy than human clinicians | Compute limits should be made transparent in the user experience | User interface modes usually lower…
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Usability Testing Process Explained in Comic Strips
Three storylines from different categories of product design: apps, websites, and consumer electronics, all told in comic-strip format.
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UX Roundup: UX Leaders Need Profits | In-depth AI | Emotional Avatar Animation | Construction Time | User Needs
UX should quest for profits, not a seat at the table | In-depth AI reviews of draft academic papers | Emotional lip-synching of avatars when singing …
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November 2025

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