Summary:  AI video models advanced significantly in 2025, particularly in avatar expressiveness, enabling me to produce much better videos than in 2024. Further improvements are needed in 2026 to realize the potential of individual creators. Here are my 10 most popular videos, as determined by audience clicks and viewing durations. (Nano Banana Pro) I thought that 2024 was the year of AI video and that 2025 would be the year of AI agents . There certainly was strong growth in

Summary : UX should quest for profits, not a seat at the table | In-depth AI reviews of draft academic papers | Emotional lip-synching of avatars when singing | Time needed to build AI supercompute data centers | Discover user needs UX Roundup for December 1, 2025. (Nano Banana Pro) Abandon Your CEO Crush Matthew Holloway published a great article deploring design leaders’ fixation on reporting directly to CEOs . He wrote that this resembles adolescent crushes: idealized fant

Summary : AI helps old users stay creative | Microsoft, Google, and our AI Future | Automatically generate on-brand campaigns | AI-created digital storytelling is worth $2 billion | AI music valued even higher than AI slides UX Roundup for November 24, 2025. (Nano Banana Pro) Happy Thanksgiving (Seedream 4) Happy Thanksgiving from UX Tigers and Jakob Nielsen! I made a short song with my mascot tiger celebrating Thanksgiving , combining animations from Seedance Pro 1, Grok Ima

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 : Experimenting with same song in different genres | Humans impolite to AI, which needs to be reflected in training data | Subscriptions beat social media for insightful content | AI answers beat search   UX Roundup for November 10, 2025. (Seedream 4) Two New Music Genres I remade my opera about direct manipulation (YouTube, 4 min.) in two modern music genres: Jazz song  about direct manipulation (YouTube, 3 min.) Rock song  about direct manipulation (YouTube, 3 min.

Summary : New versions of leading AI music and video models Suno and Kling | Shorter surveys have higher validity | Safety update for...

Rethinking workflows for AI | Lowering the barrier to creating content with AI | NotebookLM automatically creates a slideshow from an article | Changing the wording of questions in standard surveys | The market will support multiple AI models 

Midjourney doubles down on usability atrocity | AI drives website traffic | Improvements in lip synch for AI avatar videos | AI music improves with Suno 4.5 | You are not the user

AI stigma & SEO explainer videos | Overwhelmed by AI progress | AI music improves | Overrecruiting study participants to account for no-show

When UX professionals gain superpowers | UX-STRAT conference pivots to AI-driven future | Luma Dream Machine generates better AI video

Summary: Music prompting harder than image prompting | Combining up to 8 different AI tools into a single task workflow | Midjourney...

Many-Shot prompts likely to improve some UX tasks | Prompt library for educational use of AI | LinkedIn’s useless UX advice

Auto-sync makes YouTube captions easier to create | SUS questionnaire user satisfaction is too long | Revolutionary first Mac GUI

Leonardo support for collaborative AI workflow in UX design | Clear beats clever in UX | Hackathon to grow team skills | AI-enabled KPIs

Educational use of AI-generated songs | Weakness of manual UX design | Disappointing AI videos from pro filmmakers

Julie Zhou recalls Facebook’s early user interface designs | Tools for generative UI need a hybrid UI | Early eyetracking reseach

AI is a general-purpose technology that can double economic growth | Comparing human card sorting with AI categorization

Jakob’s top-10 articles and top-3 videos in 2023 | AI sings about the 10 usability heuristics | The future of work: changing AI metaphor