Dark design patterns | 8 usage patterns for ecommerce search | Search engine traffic drops rapidly | AI overcomes “The Mythical Man-Month” | AI does well in UI design vs. human designers | The story of Ada, Countess of Lovelace | Scenario for European AI until 2031 | Virtual girlfriends/boyfriends rack up double the use of dating apps | Job openings for data visualization design

DeepMind outlined 4 paths to superintelligence: scaling, paradigm shifts, recursive self-improvement, and multi agent collectives. I explained this dense 57-page report in a 31-page comic book, including a section on the UX implications.

Gen Alpha is not mini-Gen-Z | Personas as Packaged Software | Sentient Design is a new book about AI as a design material | My hero: Dr. Thomas K. Landauer of Bell Labs/Bellcore | YouTube’s Thumbnail Generator | Recommended AI short videos | Amazon changes the name of its AI shopping assistant from Rufus to Alexa | Claude Fable 5 released

Reviving the UX goal of empowering users | Writing in marketese kills marketing | Supposed impulse buying is often the result of months of building consideration | Honoring a human factors pioneer, Dr. John D. Gould of IBM | Prompting tip for small text fields: use Chinese

Advanced AI work is not a simple prompt-response loop. Users discover their goals through experimentation, interpret machine output through boundary objects, and refine intent over time. The future of AI-UX is not chat, but structured discovery.

The two most conversion-killing ecommerce usability fails | Social media use remains strong but the platforms are becoming less about connecting with other people | The usability of overseeing AI agents | Team-building image idea: design video game characters | Professor Ben Shneiderman was one of the greatest early pioneers of user experience | Seedance 2 as PC software concept