Think-Time UX: Design to Support Cognitive Latency
Summary: Next-generation AI-UX design must deliver human handoff harmony, with seamless transitions between machine execution and user cognition that recognize people’s limited mental processing budgets across different time periods. Includes 23 UX design patterns that support cognitive latency. Design to support the different time scales of human cognition. (Seedream 4) My good buddy Steve Krug famously said, “Don’t Make Me Think,” as his rule number one for achieving usab
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...
Email Newsletters Build Loyal Audiences
Email newsletters outperform social media for audience loyalty because they're permission-based, direct channels. Unlike platform-dependent followers, subscribers actively choose your content. As AI disintermediates search traffic, owned email lists become strategic imperatives for direct audience access.