Gain a fresh perspective on well-known products and UX influencers by reimagining them in a completely different format: as physical devices. Converting abstract pixels into palpable hardware revitalizes your thinking and is a powerful catalyst for ideation.

Only stakeholders not at the meeting table? Users | Criteria for good taglines | Creating with AI is more rewarding than passive content consumption | AI creates and edits a complete video on its own

Usability goes beyond simplicity; it's a dialogue between design and user, built on subtlety, emotional insight, and cognitive understanding

Consistency vs. exploration in AI image design | Speak the user’s language | Strong Growth in Business AI Use | The exam is not the education | The funniest cartoon captions by humans and AI

Training AI on large volumes of user research data may scale up its ability to predict usability problems and create better designs in the first place. This could change the balance between predictive usability and observational usability.

Midjourney doubles down on usability atrocity | AI drives website traffic | Improvements in lip synch for AI avatar videos | AI music improves with Suno 4.5 | You are not the user

AI products have changed from invisible enhancement of classical user interfaces to soon become the main avenue for users to engage with digital features and content. This may mean the end of UI design in the traditional sense, refocusing designers’ work on orchestrating the experience at a deeper level.

Developers outracing UX because of AI acceleration | AI is 5x times safer than humans when driving cars | Usability poster | Prompt engineering no longer a viable job

These are the answers to the “Big UX Quiz” that Jakob Nielsen published last week.