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UX Roundup: ChatGPT Agent | Opportunities Change Behavior | Breadcrumbs | UX Career Pivot | Make Viral Thumbnails | Startups Driven by AI …
ChatGPT Agent launched | New tech capabilities create the opportunity for people to do new things | Breadcrumbs: A lifeline for lost users | UX career…
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UX Career Pivot for the AI Age: Told in Manga by 4 Different AI Models
4 AI models competed to use the Manga comic book format to tell the story of how to pivot your AI career for AI.
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UX Roundup: Simplicity | Error Prevention | Educational AI | Heuristic Evaluation with AI | AI 4x Better at Medical Diagnosis | Grok 4 and…
The Simplicity Poof | Error prevention explained by Vikings | AI in education | Heuristic Evaluation with AI | UX career pivot | AI was 4x better than…
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How to Develop Agency: The Number-One Career Skill for the AI Age
Cultivate your ability to effect change actively rather than reacting passively.
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GEO Guidelines: How to Get Quoted by AI Through Generative Engine Optimization
Being mentioned in AI answers is the new share-of-voice for brands and influencers.
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UX Roundup: UX in the Street | AI Video | Infinite Scroll | Simplicity vs. Features | Logo as Coin | AI Blooper | Midjourney Animation
Street interview video about the consistency heuristic | AI auto-generates full videos | Infinite scrolling is a usability quagmire to avoid …
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Use the AI Transition Period to Transition Your Career
In the great UX pivot, you have 5 years to trade yesterday’s expertise for tomorrow’s relevance.
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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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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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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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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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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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