AI companions, like virtual friends, are helping people feel more connected. They offer modest but meaningful reductions in loneliness.

From AI generation to AI editing | Innovation can be harmful | Is Midjourney getting faster? | AI may make workers feel less time pressure

UX leadership templates | Designing for old users | Use AI to ideate bilingual content | Benefits of wireframes for early UI design

Summary : Jakob live on Internet Sept. 19 | AI helps education but teachers are poorly supported | Bill Gates thinks AI is easy |...

The transformative potential of the AI revolution is a career opportunity. Early engagement in AI creates joy and self-realization.

Why UX Tigers has a tiger brand | Major Design conference | Getting AI to provide help about itself | UX degree or keep working?

Summary : Top 50 AI consumer services | Ideogram launches upgraded version 2.0 | Midjourney’s web user interface finally available to all...

AI’s impact on job markets will likely mirror previous innovations. The projected 10,000x increase in AI by 2027 will bring wealth and jobs.

Nagging UI reminders become a dark design pattern | Typeface manga | Number of fields on web forms | Image quality vs scene quality

Summary : UX has come a long way since its early beginnings at Bell Labs in the 1940s. As we enter Year 2 of the AI revolution, it’s...

Stakeholders deem UX work to be “obvious” | Rubric for scoring insightful use of AI | Make it easy to see all user-contributed photos

AI shows more empathy than human doctors | “Submit” considered harmful | Europe too slow for AI | Prompt AI for user research questions

Summary: AI transforms creativity, lifting every writer’s potential, as measured in a new study of people writing short fictional stories...

Lessons from LEGO’s Creative Play Lab | What new products and services can be built with 10x or 10 less investment needed because of AI?

AI evolves. Prices drop. Performance rises. Giants compete. Open-source challenges proprietary. Future uncertain. Progress accelerates.

UX salaries down by 12% in a year | To retain top talents, assign them to experiment with AI

Summary: Past, present, and future user experience: lean-back, lean-forward, and be-inside. A combination of AI and gaming will create a...

Perceived fast response times improve the user experience | Many ideas in no time from AI | Deterministic UI vs. probabilistic AI UX

Top 10 foundational UX insights | 76% of online services use dark design patterns | Low-latency voice communication | Video as hero images

AI's rapid advancement is caused by 3 factors: raw compute, algorithmic efficiency, and "unhobbling." Result: 10,000x AI boost every 4 year