Summary : Year of the Fire Horse | Reversing creative workflows | AI coding wins complete dominance | Usability scaling continues | 40 years of being right become 40 years of being wrong | Usability Engineering book passes 30,000 citations | Award-winning AI video UX Roundup for February 16, 2026: Happy Year of the Horse! (xx)     Year of the Fire Horse Happy Year of the Horse! But it’s not just any old horse this year, it’s the fire horse, a combination that only comes aroun

Summary:  AI disrupted UX practice across multiple vectors: research methodology, interface ontology, temporal dynamics, economic structures, and distribution channels. UX professionals must reconceptualize their discipline from artifact-centric design toward orchestrating intent-driven systems while cultivating individual agency as the primary professional competency. (Nano Banana Pro) I published about 330,000 words  across 100 articles on UX Tigers in 2025 (including this

Summary:  The prevailing “human in the loop” paradigm for AI use must die or be drastically reduced. In many cases, human involvement already degrades AI performance, especially in analytical tasks. Creative fields still benefit from the positive synergistic effects of human-AI collaboration, but as AI improves, the scope for human involvement will likely shrink. Humans must move up the food chain to exhibit agency and strategic management, while letting superior AI systems o

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

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

AI film festival | AI as good as human therapists | AI beats human radiologists | AI Creative Writing Test | Grok 3 launched

New podcast creation | Figma Plugin with UX design guidelines | Traditional company business models disrupted by AI | New AI models

The creative writing abilities of ChatGPT have improved a little, as shown by a small experiment in two genres: poetry & children’s stories.

Summary : AI is reshaping the landscape of creativity and innovation. AI outperforms humans in both general ideation and the production...

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?

Turning the tables: Use AI to check your work | Toast notifications are a burnt GUI widget | Do people prefer human or AI design?

A thematic analysis of social media posts identified key themes, offering a audience-centered perspective on the future of UX design.

AI won’t replace human creativity, it will amplify it. Forget mass-market entertainment; the true revolution is in hyper-targeted content.

AI can already perform many UX tasks. It will do more in the future, including maybe UI design. But AI will not replace watching users.

Oral tradition, writing and printing, and newly developing human-AI co-created media differ along multiple dimensions.

AI creativity tested by challenging 3 leading generative models to conceptualize “artificial intelligence” without resorting to robots.

It is cheaper to let AI take the initiative in human–AI collaborations where it generates a range of initial ideas for humans to winnow.

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