UX Roundup: AI Empathy | Transparency About Compute Limits | UI Modes | Seedream 4.5 | AI In/Out of Silicon Valley | Kling Speaks
Summary : AI exhibits better empathy than human clinicians | Compute limits should be made transparent in the user experience | User interface modes usually lower usability | Seedream 4.5 image model now with improved text rendering | How feasible is it to build an AI company outside Silicon Valley | The Kling video model now generates speaking characters UX Roundup for December 8, 2025. (Nano Banana Pro) Creation by Discovery New music video about how creators explore the la
Usability Testing Process Explained in Comic Strips
Summary: Three storylines from different categories of product design: apps, websites, and consumer electronics, all told in comic-strip format. Different cartooning styles are used to convey varying levels of detail, including a humorous version told through animal characters. I made all the comics in this article with Nano Banana Pro. I have a systematic 12-step process for planning, running, and analyzing a usability study . Unfortunately, the write-up of the full proce
UX Roundup: UX Leaders Need Profits | In-depth AI | Emotional Avatar Animation | Construction Time | User Needs
Summary : UX should quest for profits, not a seat at the table | In-depth AI reviews of draft academic papers | Emotional lip-synching of avatars when singing | Time needed to build AI supercompute data centers | Discover user needs UX Roundup for December 1, 2025. (Nano Banana Pro) Abandon Your CEO Crush Matthew Holloway published a great article deploring design leaders’ fixation on reporting directly to CEOs . He wrote that this resembles adolescent crushes: idealized fant
Nano Banana Pro is the “ChatGPT Moment” for Visual Communication
Summary: Google's Nano Banana Pro takes AI image generation mainstream, making professional visual communication accessible to everyone. Integrating with Gemini 3 Pro's reasoning engine, it creates professional infographics, comic strips, and visual resumes instantly. While imperfect, with occasional typos, excessive verbosity, and generic default styling, it outperforms competitors for practical applications. This advancement will transform how we explain complex informati
UX Roundup: Creativity for Old Users | Conflicting AI Goals | Automated Social Campaigns | Digital Storytelling | Valuable Music
Summary : AI helps old users stay creative | Microsoft, Google, and our AI Future | Automatically generate on-brand campaigns | AI-created digital storytelling is worth $2 billion | AI music valued even higher than AI slides UX Roundup for November 24, 2025. (Nano Banana Pro) Happy Thanksgiving (Seedream 4) Happy Thanksgiving from UX Tigers and Jakob Nielsen! I made a short song with my mascot tiger celebrating Thanksgiving , combining animations from Seedance Pro 1, Grok Ima
Generative UI from Gemini 3 Pro
Summary: Google's new Gemini 3 Pro is making waves, but not just for its top leaderboard scores. The real story? Generative UI: interfaces that AI designs just for you, right when you need them. Users overwhelmingly prefer these custom-made interfaces over regular websites (90% of the time!). Sure, human designers still win by a hair, but with AI improving exponentially and humans staying roughly the same, that won't last long. Google will be hammering out individualized u