Summary : New Image Models: Microsoft MAI-Image-1 vs. Grok Image 0.9 | Writing digital content: Julius Caesar as a role model | Should AI mimic human cognition? | AI helps e-commerce sell more | AI singers understand the lyrics   UX Roundup for November 17, 2025. (GPT Image-1) New Image Models: Microsoft MAI-Image-1 vs. Grok Image 0.9 Microsoft has released a new text-to-image model on www.bing.com/create , called MAI-Image-1. I tested it with the same prompt I had used with

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

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

Summary : Form design should minimize required fields, collecting only essential data. High-friction fields like phone numbers and...

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

Design metrics that measure user value | Users don’t like to read | Children’s awareness of dark design patterns | Why Chinese design looks

AI makes mathematics research more scalable | Usability enters the mainstream | Sparkles emoji as the icon for AI in user interfaces

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

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

Summary: Luxury websites have bad usability | Poster fail: User testing, the movie | AI is Ozempic for the company | Is Microsoft Clarity...

Generative UI benefits from design systems | Autoformat credit card numbers as chunks | Systems thinking

Dissecting the anatomy of specification sheets on ecommerce platforms. Using Amazon as a case study to illustrate common pitfalls.

Summary: Visualize the size of objects on ecommerce product pages | Job Openings: UX Research Generative AI @ Microsoft | Midjourney’s...

India outlawed 12 common dark design patterns. These sneaky practices are unethical applications of established UX knowledge to harm users.

Summary: Implications of the near-disaster at OpenAI | Improving productivity of UX work by using AI | Writing good headlines for UX...

Strong photography conveys information with authenticity, fostering trust in the content provided on a website.

Award-Winning AI-Enabled UX Design & Research Tools You Need to Try | Flow chart for better error messages | Alternate payment options

Coupon-code fields make ecommerce shoppers green with discount envy | Guidelines for toggle switch design | User research at tradeshows

UX analysis of the FTC lawsuit accusing Amazon.com of employing dark design patterns in its subscribe and unsubscribe workflows.