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UX Roundup: Caption Contest | AI Toys & Appliances | Liquid Glass
Caption contest | OpenAI + Mattel team up for AI toys | Apple Liquid Glass has poor usability
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Learn UX Strategy & Business Alignment: A 10-Week Plan
10 weeks’ worth of reading materials and exercises to understand how to align UX work with business strategy and product goals, how great design can…
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UX Roundup: Hamburger Menus | AI Agents | App Overload | Web Images | Modal Overuse
Reserve hamburger menus for small-screen designs | AI agents must remain under user control | One app per thing in your life = app overload | Images…
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The 10 Usability Heuristics in Cartoons
Finally, what you have been waiting for: a humorous take on Jakob Nielsen’s classic 10 usability heuristics explained in 80 cartoons.
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UX Roundup: AI Panic | Progress Indicators | Reversing Idea Flow | AI-Native Companies | Fake AI Research
GUI panic vs. AI panic | Progress bars and percent-done indicators | Reversing the sequence between idea and result | AI-native companies rethink…
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May 2025

Knobs, Dials, and UX: Reimagining Digital Services as Tangible Devices
Gain a fresh perspective on well-known products and UX influencers by reimagining them in a completely different format: as physical devices.
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UX Roundup: Users Not at Table | Usability Taglines | Creating > Consuming | 100% AI-Created Video
Only stakeholders not at the meeting table? Users | Criteria for good taglines | Creating with AI is more rewarding than passive content consumption …
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The Meaning of Usability Explained in Creative Writing
Usability goes beyond simplicity; it's a dialogue between design and user, built on subtlety, emotional insight, and cognitive understanding.
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UX Roundup: AI Image Consistency | Speak the User’s Language | Business Use of AI | The Exam Is Not the Education | Caption Contest
Consistency vs. exploration in AI image design | Speak the user’s language | Strong Growth in Business AI Use | The exam is not the education | The…
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The Usability Scaling Law: Death of User Testing?
The AI scaling law says that more training data creates smarter AI. Similarly, training AI on large volumes of user research data may scale up its…
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UX Roundup: Midjourney Usability Atrocity | AI Drives Traffic | Lip Synch Improvements | Progress in AI Music | You ≠ User
Midjourney doubles down on usability atrocity | AI drives website traffic | Improvements in lip synch for AI avatar videos | AI music improves with Suno…
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No More User Interface?
AI products have changed from invisible enhancement of classical user interfaces to soon become the main avenue for users to engage with digital…
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