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