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

Why UX Tigers has a tiger brand | Major Design conference | Getting AI to provide help about itself | UX degree or keep working?

Lessons from LEGO’s Creative Play Lab | What new products and services can be built with 10x or 10 less investment needed because of AI?

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

Summary: Visualize the size of objects on ecommerce product pages | Job Openings: UX Research Generative AI @ Microsoft | Midjourney’s soon-to-come new app is in Alpha release: watch the video | UX must urgently embrace AI | ChatGPT getting lazy | AI causes drop in search traffic | Maintaining eye contact in video meetings UX Roundup for December 18, 2023. Merry Christmas from all of us here at UX Tigers. (“All of us” just being Jakob.) Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas