UX Roundup: Latent Affordances | Automating Competence | Entry-Level UXR Job | Direct Manipulation | One-Shot AI Slideshow | Veo 3.1 | $100M Avatars
Summary : Latent affordances | Automating best-practice dissemination by having AI learn from top staff | Entry-level user researcher job opening at LEGO | Direct manipulation: the opera | One-shotting a narrated slideshow with Google’s NotebookLM | New video model Veo 3.1 | Avatar company HeyGen scores $100M annual run rate UX Roundup for October 20, 2025: Many of this week’s news items relate to the process of going from idea to video with AI. (GPT Image-1) Latent Affordanc
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 problems; users forget context during long waits. UX solutions include upfront clarification, explicit run contracts, checkpointing for recovery, conceptual breadcrumbs showing reasoning, and progressive disclosure of partial results.
UX Roundup: Email UX | Sora 2 | AI New Business Capabilities | AI Consumer Surplus | Latent Affordances | Ambient Clinical AI
Summary : Email user experience | New video model Sora 2 compared with older models | AI offering new business capabilities instead of...
UX Roundup: AI Music and Video Upgrades | Survey Length | Self-Driving Safety | AI GDP Metric | Amazon Dark Design
Summary : New versions of leading AI music and video models Suno and Kling | Shorter surveys have higher validity | Safety update for...
Transformative AI Changes the Future of Work and Firms
Summary: Transformative AI (TAI) is AI that fundamentally changes the economy, increasing productivity at an unprecedented rate and...
UX Roundup: Forward Deployed Engineers | AI GUI Controls | Apple Liquid Glass UI | User Testing Explained
Summary : Forward Deployed Engineers are the new user researchers | Reve has GUI controls for AI image editing | Apple Liquid Glass UI...