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Strong AI Creativity
AI is reshaping the landscape of creativity and innovation. AI outperforms humans in both general ideation and the production of academic research…
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UX Roundup: AI in Mathematics | Mainstreaming Usability | Sparkles Emoji | Changing E-Commerce Guidelines | SFTechWeek Event
AI makes mathematics research more scalable | Usability has entered the mainstream | Sparkles emoji as the icon for AI in user interfaces | Changes to…
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UX Roundup: Consultants Don’t Work | Apple AI | AI as General-Purpose Technology | Generative UI for the Enterprise
Consultants don’t work for improving productivity through AI | Apple AI = bad AI | AI is a general-purpose technology | Generative UI for the…
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UX Roundup: OpenAI Canvas | Evaluating AI Video | AI Podcast | AI Translation | AI Adoption & Retention | Flux 1.1
OpenAI Canvas heralds hybrid UI for AI | Evaluating AI video models in pairwise quality comparisons | AI-created podcast | AI translation | Fast…
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UX Roundup: Jakob Live | Reducing Extreme Poverty | Training with AI Agents | Healthcare Leapfrogging | Human vs AI Doctors | AI Leaderboard
Progress in reducing extreme poverty | AI Agents as training aides | Will AI finally leapfrog healthcare delivery into the modern world?
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September 2024

UX Roundup: AI-Created Podcast | Likely to Recommend? | Unproductive Metrics | Are UIs Needed? | Faster Tech Diffusion | AI Predictions …
Podcast created by AI | What people say vs. do relative to product recommendations | Metrics that incentivize the wrong behavior
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4 Metaphors for Working with AI: Intern, Coworker, Teacher, Coach
Summary: Viewing AI as an eager but unskilled intern was appropriate in early 2023, but this metaphor is now too limiting for good AI utilization and…
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UX Roundup: Learning User Testing | Writing with AI | AI Data Center Walkthrough | Runway Experimental UI | AI As Expert Tutor …
Learn user testing through in-person sessions | Dialectic writing with AI | Video of Tesla’s AI training cluster | Runway shows experimental user…
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AI Companions Reduce Loneliness
AI companions, like virtual friends, are helping people feel more connected. Drawing from recent studies, including a controlled experiment and a…
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UX Roundup: AI Editing | Speaking This Week | Bad Innovation | Faster Midjourney | Feeling Less Rushed | Improving International…
From AI generation to AI editing | Jakob speaking at ADPList this week | Innovation can be harmful | Is Midjourney getting faster?
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Gestalt Principles for Visual UI Design
Rooted in over a century of psychological research, the 9 Gestalt principles are essential for designing user interface layouts.
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UX Roundup: UX Leadership Templates | Old Users | Bilingual AI | Wireframes | UX Tarot | AI Course
UX leadership templates | Designing for old users | Use AI to ideate bilingual content | Benefits of wireframes for early UI design | UX Tarot cards …
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