

The Year in Image Generation
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
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 28, 202511 min read


UX Roundup: AI Empathy | Transparency About Compute Limits | UI Modes | Seedream 4.5 | AI In/Out of Silicon Valley | Kling Speaks
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
Jakob Nielsen
Dec 8, 202515 min read


Nano Banana Pro is the “ChatGPT Moment” for Visual Communication
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
Jakob Nielsen
Nov 28, 202512 min read


UX Roundup: Image Models Compared | Writing for the Web | AI vs. Human Cognition | E-Commerce Usability | Multimodal Music Models
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
Jakob Nielsen
Nov 17, 202513 min read


UX Roundup: Forward Deployed Engineers | AI GUI Controls | Apple Liquid Glass UI | User Testing Explained
Summary : Forward Deployed Engineers are the new user researchers | Reve has GUI controls for AI image editing | Apple Liquid Glass UI...
Jakob Nielsen
Sep 22, 202512 min read


UX Roundup: Corkboard Mockup | Loss-Making Promos | AI Movie | Video-to-Music | Mainstream AI | Young Staff Loves AI | Nano Banana | Emotional Speech Model
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
Jakob Nielsen
Sep 1, 202513 min read
