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 

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...

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

4 AI models competed to use the Manga comic book format to tell the story of how to pivot your AI career for AI. See which manga you like the best. All succeeded in condensing a long theoretical article into a few engaging pages, reducing the word count by 94%.

The Simplicity Poof | Error prevention explained by Vikings | AI in education | Heuristic Evaluation with AI | UX career pivot | AI was 4x better than human doctors at diagnosing complex cases | Grok 4 sets new record for AI subscription pricing | Advances in AI Video

Cultivate your ability to effect change actively rather than reacting passively. Human agency with the courage to do something new, without being told, will separate the designers of the future from the assembly-line workers of the past, and the empowered learner from the spoon-fed student.

Being mentioned in AI answers is the new share-of-voice for brands and influencers. Being ignored by AI is like being on page 5 of a Google SERP in the old days.

Street interview video about the consistency heuristic | AI auto-generates full videos | Infinite scrolling is a usability quagmire to avoid | Simplicity vs. features

Summary: In the great UX pivot, you have 5 years to trade yesterday’s expertise for tomorrow’s relevance. Legacy UX skills won’t save you...

Summary : Caption contest | OpenAI + Mattel team up for AI toys | Apple Liquid Glass has poor usability UX Roundup for June 16, 2025....

Reserve hamburger menus for small-screen designs | AI agents must remain under user control | One app per thing in your life = app overload | Images stand out on web pages | Overusing modal dialog boxes

GUI panic vs. AI panic | Progress bars and percent-done indicators | Reversing the sequence between idea and result | AI-native companies rethink workflows | Fake research: MIT retracts AI creativity paper

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

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