AI’s impact on job prospects for junior vs. senior employees | Founder Mode | Learn AI-First design | Secondary user research | Comparing avatars animated with HeyGen and Chinese AI tool Wan

User testing is straightforward, but it involves many moving parts, making it best to have a systematic process for planning and executing studies, as well as ensuring follow-up.

Corkboard mockup of project history | Are promotions profitable or not? | Making a short  AI film | Auto-creating music based on a video | AI is becoming the norm for online shoppers in the United States | High AI adoption among entry-level employees in poor and middle-income countries | Google’s new Nano Banana image editing model | Microsoft releases T2V model that generates emotional speech

AI is surging from early-adopter novelty to everyday utility. Yet this transition is uneven across countries and use cases. In some cases, AI has already crossed Geoffrey Moore’s famed chasm between visionary early adopters and the pragmatic early majority, whereas in other cases, AI diffusion is much slower.

Summary : User interfaces for human interaction will be replaced by AI agents | Quantitative user research methods made easy | Use AI to...

Summary:  AI transforms UX into exploration-based discovery. Users will navigate latent solution spaces rather than specifying outcomes. Creation shifts from building or describing to discovering possibilities. Future interfaces become collaborative playgrounds where users recognize solutions instead of articulating visions, augmenting human existence. For a fun summary of this article: Watch my music video Creation by Discovery: Navigating Latent Design Space  (YouTube, 5 mi

Rethinking workflows for AI | Lowering the barrier to creating content with AI | NotebookLM automatically creates a slideshow from an article | Changing the wording of questions in standard surveys | The market will support multiple AI models 

UX metaphors help users learn new interfaces by transferring knowledge from familiar concepts. They bridge designers’ conceptual models with users’ mental models through analogical reasoning, mapping multiple attributes between source and target domains.

GPT 5 put to the test: Explain UXD and UXR to a 5-year-old | AI in Education | AI makes repositories of old user research findings more useful | AI summaries cannibalize clickthrough from web searches | The journey map is not the territory of user actions | Patients reveal more to clinical AI than when talking with human physicians | Response time matters for AI usability | Leading the participants in a usability study

Summary:  A storybook that metaphorically explains minimalist design through pictures and a story. Storytelling is more memorable and...

Many UX designers are still in denial about AI | The 3 different types of AI use in companies, and their implications for your career | AI does mathematics differently than humans

Qualitative research is your only path to design improvement. Watching users struggle reveals solutions; surveys and metrics don’t. Testing with 5 users enables rapid iteration: test, fix, repeat.

Summary : Usability testing as theater | Too many applications | Less Is More | Illustrations vs. photos | Love the problem, not your...

Summary:  Users encounter usability annoyances daily in their computer use. Sometimes annoyances can be sidestepped at the cost of extra...

New tech capabilities create the opportunity for people to do new things | Breadcrumbs | Use ChatGPT image mode to create viral thumbnails | Startup companies increasingly being driven by AI | Enterprise AI | Changing from design thinking to design doing