Summary : Predictions for UX in 2025 revisited | 2025 saw major paradigm changes in AI | Simple AI reduces doctors’ burnout | Fast sales growth for providers of useful AI services UX Roundup for December 22, 2025. (Nano Banana Pro) Merry Christmas Merry Christmas from UX Tigers and Jakob Nielsen. (Nano Banana Pro) I hope you have a wonderful and peaceful holiday season. Watch my UX Christmas Song  (YouTube, 2 min.), and compare with my 2024 Christmas Song  to appreciate how f

Summary : AI exhibits better empathy than human clinicians | Compute limits should be made transparent in the user experience | User interface modes usually lower usability | Seedream 4.5 image model now with improved text rendering | How feasible is it to build an AI company outside Silicon Valley | The Kling video model now generates speaking characters UX Roundup for December 8, 2025. (Nano Banana Pro) Creation by Discovery New music video about how creators explore the la

Summary : Email user experience | New video model Sora 2 compared with older models | AI offering new business capabilities instead of...

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

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

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

Developers outracing UX because of AI acceleration | AI is 5x times safer than humans when driving cars | Usability poster | Prompt engineering no longer a viable job

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

Tech advances outpace human aging | Specializing in design for a target domain | The best-performing Avatars vary by social-media platform

AI does worse than human doctors when eliciting clinical information in conversations with patients | AI mashups of famous characters

AI Startups Growth | Hiring Staff with AI Skills | Apple Intelligence Useless | Dr. AI | New o3 model

Progress in reducing extreme poverty | AI Agents as training aides | Will AI finally leapfrog healthcare delivery?

Moderna goes all-in on AI use | Neopets revived after 20 years: pets still live | Improving the usability of empty-state areas in a UI

AI companions are a killer app because users like that their AI friend is non-judgmental, always there, kind, and agreeable.