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

AI can translate a single source across media, styles, and audience frames. That makes it possible to reuse core material in formats better suited to different platforms and audiences. Shakespeare’s Hamlet serves here as a case study in a wide range of AI media transformations.

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 : Books dominated by Old UX instead of new UX | How Adam Smith predicts AI will turn out for the economy | Chinese sci-fi video made with Seedance 2 | The 5 levels of AI agency UX Roundup for March 16, 2026 (Nano Banana Pro) Old UX Dominates in New Books; New UX Too Rare Vitaly Friedman published a list of 21 new books about UX  (including some online sources). It’s a useful service to list them all in one place, and several of these new books look interesting, judgin

Summary : Using Nano Banana 2 to render the heroes of the graphical user interface as a monument | Two examples of great AI (short) videos | AI won’t kill software | Bing reports AI citations of your website | AI task horizons keep increasing | Google simplifies its AI product architecture | One-shot instructional AI video from NotebookLM | GPT 5.4 is probably a better writer than 5.2 UX Roundup for March 9, 2026 (Nano Banana 2) Using Nano Banana 2 To Render the Heroes of the

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 : Year of the Fire Horse | Reversing creative workflows | AI coding wins complete dominance | Usability scaling continues | 40 years of being right become 40 years of being wrong | Usability Engineering book passes 30,000 citations | Award-winning AI video UX Roundup for February 16, 2026: Happy Year of the Horse! (xx)     Year of the Fire Horse Happy Year of the Horse! But it’s not just any old horse this year, it’s the fire horse, a combination that only comes aroun

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 : Latent affordances | Automating best-practice dissemination by having AI learn from top staff | Entry-level user researcher job opening at LEGO | Direct manipulation: the opera | One-shotting a narrated slideshow with Google’s NotebookLM | New video model Veo 3.1 | Avatar company HeyGen scores $100M annual run rate UX Roundup for October 20, 2025: Many of this week’s news items relate to the process of going from idea to video with AI. (GPT Image-1) Latent Affordanc

Summary : Email user experience | New video model Sora 2 compared with older models | AI offering new business capabilities instead of...

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

Summary : User Testing 12-step process | AI advertisements outperformed human-created ads | Users give high NPS scores to the main AI...

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

The Simplicity Poof | Error prevention explained by Vikings | AI in education | Heuristic Evaluation with AI | UX career pivot | AI was 4x better than human doctors at diagnosing complex cases | Grok 4 sets new record for AI subscription pricing | Advances in AI Video

Only stakeholders not at the meeting table? Users | Criteria for good taglines | Creating with AI is more rewarding than passive content consumption | AI creates and edits a complete video on its own

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

AR glasses help blind users | Practice with AI to build lasting skills | AI for fuzzy concept searches | AI as a super-thesaurus

AI film festival | AI as good as human therapists | AI beats human radiologists | AI Creative Writing Test | Grok 3 launched

Summary: OpenAI’s new Deep Research offers rapid data synthesis and a novel approach to user interaction with shared dialogue initiative....

Tech advances outpace human aging | Specializing in design for a target domain | The best-performing Avatars vary by social-media platform