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

Closing AI research window | Inflection point for AI skill substitution | UX job growth | AI-UX consulting | Animating cute animals

Jakob Nielsen’s top videos from 2024 include both old-school live humans in and AI-generated videos. AI video progressed immensely this year

AI Startups Growth | Hiring Staff with AI Skills | Apple Intelligence Useless | Dr. AI | New o3 model

AI-Assisted Video Editing with CapCut | Comparing services for generating AI avatars | The core NotebookLM team leaves Google

Cookie banners waste 575 M hours of European users’ time annually | Jensen Huang on AI infrastructure | AI training clusters keep growing

Directing the AI camera for emotional impact | Web design mistakes the same as ever | UX job openings: equal numbers for senior and junior

OpenAI Canvas  heralds hybrid UI for AI | Evaluating AI video models in pairwise quality comparisons | AI-created podcast | AI translation

Learn user testing through in-person sessions | Dialectic writing with AI | AI taking the lead to guide users