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UX must alleviate the cognitive burden of time
Next-generation AI-UX design must deliver human handoff harmony, with seamless transitions between machine execution and user cognition that recognize…
Oct 23
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UX Roundup: Latent Affordances | Automating Competence | Entry-Level UXR Job | Direct Manipulation | One-Shot AI Slideshow | Veo 3.1 | $100M…
Latent affordances | Automating best-practice dissemination by having AI learn from top staff | Entry-level user researcher job opening at LEGO | Direct…
Oct 20
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Slow AI: Designing User Control for Long Tasks
Batch processing returns as AI agents run for hours or days, eliminating traditional turn-taking interaction. Slow AI creates control and observability…
Oct 13
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UX Roundup: Email UX | Sora 2 | AI New Business Capabilities | AI Consumer Surplus | Latent Affordances | Ambient Clinical AI
Email user experience | New video model Sora 2 compared with older models | AI offering new business capabilities instead of just replacing old jobs …
Oct 6
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UX Roundup: AI Music and Video Upgrades | Survey Length | Self-Driving Safety | AI GDP Metric | Amazon Dark Design
New versions of leading AI music and video models Suno and Kling | Shorter surveys have higher validity | Safety update for Waymo’s autonomous cars …
Sep 29
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Transformative AI Changes the Future of Work and Firms
Transformative AI (TAI) is AI that fundamentally changes the economy, increasing productivity at an unprecedented rate and likely completely changing…
Sep 25
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UX Roundup: Forward Deployed Engineers | AI GUI Controls | Apple Liquid Glass UI | User Testing Explained
Forward Deployed Engineers are the new user researchers | Reve has GUI controls for AI image editing | Apple Liquid Glass UI now shipping
Sep 22
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Email Newsletters Build Loyal Audiences
Email newsletters outperform social media for audience loyalty because they're permission-based, direct channels.
Sep 18
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UX Roundup: User Testing | AI Ads | Users Like AI | Multiple Analytics Experiments | Low-Fi Prototyping | AI for User Research
User Testing 12-step process | AI advertisements outperformed human-created ads | Users give high NPS scores to the main AI models | Running multiple…
Sep 15
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AI-First Companies
AI-First means massive automation to repetitive tasks, rapid iteration over perfection, ubiquitous AI integration across workflows, and workforce…
Sep 11
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UX Roundup: AI Job Losses for Young Staff | Founder Mode | Learn AI-First Design | Secondary Research | Comparing Avatar Tools
AI’s impact on job prospects for junior vs. senior employees | Founder Mode | Learn AI-First design | Secondary user research | Comparing avatars…
Sep 8
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UX Roundup: Corkboard Mockup | Loss-Making Promos | AI Movie | Video-to-Music | Mainstream AI | Young Staff Loves AI | Nano Banana …
Corkboard mockup of project history | Are promotions profitable or not?
Sep 1
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