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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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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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UX Roundup: Developers Outrace UX | AI Traffic Safety | Dovetail Conference | Usability Poster | RIP Prompt Engineering | Comparing 6 Image…
Developers outracing UX because of AI acceleration | AI is 5x times safer than humans when driving cars | Dovetail conference session | Usability poster…
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