AI errors halve every 5 months on accounting tasks | Meta’s AI appliance, the Muse Charm | Synthetic users can revive participatory design and drive divergence in the exploratory design phase | Context changes what counts as usable, so test where the work happens | Synthetic users give too-nice feedback

AI technical capabilities are exploding, but sophisticated use crawls | Synthetic personas exaggerate demographics | AI hurts education when used wrong | Professor Brad Myers is a UX hero | In the future, we’ll all be Agatha Christie | Mental accounting gives users separate budgets for separate expenses | Grok releases upgraded image model

Keep It Simple | AI uses fact flooding to overwhelm users and persuade them | Deep AI integration in business processes | 5 personas for adopting AI | Using AI to change the tone of voice of your writing | Timelines: a chrono-based UI | AI improves cybersecurity | Increasing use of AI agents for online shopping

Gen Alpha is not mini-Gen-Z | Personas as Packaged Software | Sentient Design is a new book about AI as a design material | My hero: Dr. Thomas K. Landauer of Bell Labs/Bellcore | YouTube’s Thumbnail Generator | Recommended AI short videos | Amazon changes the name of its AI shopping assistant from Rufus to Alexa | Claude Fable 5 released

User targeting in UX has progressed through 5 stages : target audience, personas, customization, personalization, AI individualization.

Generative AI for images does not draw the same characters with the same appearance in different illustrations, as needed for personas.