Hamlet: The Comic Book
A 21-page comic book retelling William Shakespeare’s tragedy “Hamlet: Prince of Denmark.” Includes a description of the workflow used to produce the comics with Nano Banana 2.
UX Roundup: Apple 50 Years | AI UX Explained | Good AI Support | New Reasoning Image Model | AI Creativity | Suno 5.5
Apple Computer 50 years anniversary | The New UX for AI | Excellent AI support chat from Substack | New reasoning image model: Luma Uni-1 thinks through what to draw | AI is more creative than humans and will likely get even more creative in the future with more compute | Upgraded AI music model Suno 5.5
Intent by Discovery: Designing the AI User Experience
AI is not just a better chat box. It changes the user’s role from operator to supervisor, which forces UX to move from command-based interaction toward intent-based delegation, new usability metrics, orchestration layers, calibrated friction, and ultimately exploration-based interaction to clarify the user’s needs.
UX Roundup: Generate in 4K | Research Reproducibility Crisis | NotebookLM Videos Perform Well | Midjourney v.8 | Micropayments | Microsoft Image Model | NVIDIA GTC
Summary : Why I generate images in 4K resolution | Half of UI academic research fails to reproduce | NotebookLM Cinematic Videos Do Well with Viewers | Midjourney Version 8 Disappoints | New protocol for AI agents to use micropayments | Microsoft releases its new MAI-Image-2 model | NVIDIA’s GTC Conference UX Roundup for March 23, 2026 (Nano Banana 2) Why I Generate in 4K You may have noticed that almost all of the images I post in this newsletter are 1280 pixels wide. And ye
Don’t Design for Average Users
Summary : The average user is a terrible design target for digital products. High-end “Whale” users in the 95th or 99th percentile of usage volume (P95 or P99) have different needs and often generate dramatically more business value than the masses of low-end users that hit the P50 median usage metrics. The P95/P50 ratio ranges from 3 to 100 (or higher), depending on domain characteristics, leading to different recommended design strategies. Averages flatten reality. In pro
UX Roundup: Old vs New UX | Adam Smith Predicts AI | AI Video | AI Agents
Summary : Books dominated by Old UX instead of new UX | How Adam Smith predicts AI will turn out for the economy | Chinese sci-fi video made with Seedance 2 | The 5 levels of AI agency UX Roundup for March 16, 2026 (Nano Banana Pro) Old UX Dominates in New Books; New UX Too Rare Vitaly Friedman published a list of 21 new books about UX (including some online sources). It’s a useful service to list them all in one place, and several of these new books look interesting, judgin