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UX Roundup: Adapt or Die | Image Style Explorations | Usability Tarot | AI Compute Growth | Auto Slides | Usability Video Game | Logo Styles
Adapt or Die | Image style explorations | Making a custom Tarot card | AI training compute grows 2.5x per year | Converting an article into slides with…
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UX Roundup: UI vs. UX | Content Con | AI Avoids Traffic Accidents | AI Poetry | Direct vs. Indirect Prompting | Image Gen Progress
UI vs. UX | Content Design Con Copenhagen | AI reduces traffic injuries by 81% | AI-generated poetry is as good as human-written poetry | Direct vs…
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Aided Prompt Understanding: UX Design Patterns to Build AI Prompting Skills
AI won’t reach its full potential until people better understand how to work with it, but most people have no idea why their AI prompt didn’t work.
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UX Roundup: AI as General-Purpose or Cultural Tech | AI for Teamwork | Jakob’s Law Manga | 3 Ages of UX | Action Figure
Is AI a general-purpose technology or a cultural force | AI boosts teamwork | Jakob’s Law as a manga | 3 ages of UX | Usability action figure
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UX Roundup: Modest UX Salary Drop | Reasoning Scaling Law | AI Task Scope Grows | Customer Journey Management | 3 New Image Generators
Modest UX salary drop in 2024 | Reasoning model scaling law confirmed | AI task scope doubles every 7 Months | Customer journey management | 3 new AI…
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Prompt Augmentation: UX Design Patterns for Better AI Prompting
Six UX design patterns can help users overcome the AI articulation barrier: Style Galleries, Prompt Rewrite, Targeted Prompt Rewrite, Related Prompts…
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UX Roundup: Jakob Live | Jakob’s Interview Answers | Perplexity UX Fails | Build a Side Business | Instagram 1K
Live Internet event with Jakob this Thursday | Jakob answered a bunch of questions about the state of UX | Perplexity lets users down with two terrible…
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Declining ROI From UX Design Work
Diminishing returns for UX signal victory: usability battles have been won and the low-hanging fruit harvested.
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UX Roundup: 20K Subscribers | Voice Sound vs Character | Voice UI for Old Users | CoT Explaining AI | Ideogram Release 2a | Easy Avatars …
20,000 newsletter subscribers | Voice sound vs character | Voice UI for old users | Does chain-of-thought help users understand AI?
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Does User-Driven Design Still Need User-Centered Design?
Vibe coding places users in control of digital functionality. AI enables rapid, inexpensive design, so UX professionals must pivot.
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UX Roundup: Augmented Reality Glasses | AI Skills Development | Fuzzy Concept Search | AI Super-Thesaurus | Readability Levels | Microsoft…
Summary: Augmented reality glasses help blind users navigate world | Practice with AI to build lasting skills | AI for fuzzy concept searches | AI as a…
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Vibe Coding and Vibe Design
Summary: AI transforms software development and UX design through natural language intent specification.
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