OpenAI to emphasize usability | Integrated software | Comparing multi-shot AI video models | Grok’s image generation model receives an upgrade | AI use up in the workplace, and employees who use AI now worry less about losing their jobs to AI

Apple Computer 50 years anniversary | The New UX for AI | Excellent AI support chat from Substack | New reasoning image model: Luma Uni-1 thinks through what to draw | AI is more creative than humans and will likely get even more creative in the future with more compute | Upgraded AI music model Suno 5.5

Summary : Why I generate images in 4K resolution | Half of UI academic research fails to reproduce | NotebookLM Cinematic Videos Do Well with Viewers | Midjourney Version 8 Disappoints | New protocol for AI agents to use micropayments | Microsoft releases its new MAI-Image-2 model | NVIDIA’s GTC Conference UX Roundup for March 23, 2026 (Nano Banana 2) Why I Generate in 4K You may have noticed that almost all of the images I post in this newsletter are 1280 pixels wide. And ye

Summary : The AI is the computer | AI is disrupting the filmed entertainment industry | UX trends for 2026 | AI can use the GOMS UI analysis method | New image model: Nano Banana 2 | New music model: Lyria 3 UX Roundup for March 2, 2026 (Nano Banana 2) The AI is the Computer Aravind Srinivas (the founder of Perplexity, which is probably the best AI-driven answer engine  but has ambitions to be more) wrote an interesting essay titled “ The AI is the Computer .” When I worked a

Summary : AI judgment may follow a scaling law | Scaling AI’s judgment of usability heuristics | Generating consistent visual design assets with AI | New AI music model: Mureka O2   UX Roundup for February 2, 2026. (Nano Banana Pro) AI Judgment May Follow a Scaling Law The “bitter lesson” just became more bitter  for those humans who still believe in meatware supremacy and their “unique” ability to have “taste” or judgment about what’s best among the ceaseless AI creations. A

Summary:  For each month of 2025, here is the best image I made that month. The collection shows the progress of AI-generated images over the year, in terms of the complexity of imagery that creators can now attempt. I used 5 different image tools to create the winning pictures, using GPT Image-1 the most. (Nano Banana Pro) 2025 made one thing clear: image rendering  is no longer the hard part. Editorial selection  is. When you can generate dozens of plausible variations in a

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:  Google's Nano Banana Pro takes AI image generation mainstream, making professional visual communication accessible to everyone. Integrating with Gemini 3 Pro's reasoning engine, it creates professional infographics, comic strips, and visual resumes instantly. While imperfect, with occasional typos, excessive verbosity,  and generic default styling, it outperforms competitors for practical applications. This advancement will transform how we explain complex informati

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

Summary : Forward Deployed Engineers are the new user researchers | Reve has GUI controls for AI image editing | Apple Liquid Glass UI...

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

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

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

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

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

Adapt or Die | Image style explorations | Making a custom Tarot card | AI training compute grows 2.5x per year | Converting an article into slides with AI | Usability Hunt video game | Logo style variations

UI vs. UX | AI reduces traffic injuries | AI Poetry | Direct vs. Indirect Prompting | Image Gen Progress

Is AI general-purpose technology or a cultural force | AI boosts teamwork | Jakob’s Law as a manga | 3 ages of UX | Usability action figure

Reasoning model scaling law confirmed | AI task scope doubles every 7 Months | Customer journey management

Newsletter subscribers | Voice sound vs character | Voice UI for old users | Does chain-of-thought help users form mental models of AI?