📱Master the 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝘆𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗱 for Digital Content 🔝 Put your bottom line at the TOP, not the bottom 📰 Born in 19th-century journalism 💻 Perfect for today's scanners and TL;DR culture 👉 My full article https://t.co/6ul52oB1w2

🚨 Usability testing tip: Keep a poker face! 😐 When facilitators say "wow" ✅ or observers applaud 👏 successful tasks, users catch on quickly. Can you spot where this mistake is made in my video "Usability Testing as Theater"? 👉 https://t.co/PTDKcgodd6

Comparing two AI video models for avatar animation: The reigning champion, HeyGen's venerable Avatar IV model, and challenger Kling, which released a new Avatar 2 model yesterday, in conjunction with its upgraded version 2.6 general video model. Literally face-to-face: which

#Kling released a new version 2.6 #video model that now includes native #audio generation. It lip-synchs both human and animal characters, though it seems to do better with humans. Here is a small test reel I made, using both image-to-video (start-frame image made with Nano

Three storylines from different categories of product design: apps, websites, and consumer electronics, all told in comic-strip format. Different cartooning styles are used to convey varying levels of detail, including a humorous version told through animal characters. Full

AI overcomes the brain decay that reduces fluid intelligence, starting at age 20, and lowers old knowledge workers' creative productivity after 40. Also watch explainer video on how AI helps old users 👉 https://t.co/KoifVTnSAn Read Jakob Nielsen's full article on AI's ability

UX should quest for profits, not a seat at the table | In-depth AI reviews of draft academic papers | Emotional lip-synching of avatars when singing | Time needed to build AI supercompute data centers | Discover user needs Full article 👉 https://t.co/jiXIWcMuyx #UserExperience

Face-to-face (literally) comparison of two AI models for animating singing avatars: ⭐ HeyGen Avatar IV ⭐ Lemon Slice v. 2.7 Lemon Slice is said to better animate a singer's emotions, whereas HeyGen has traditionally focused on speaking (not singing) avatars that present dry

Google's Nano Banana Pro takes AI image generation mainstream, making professional visual communication accessible to everyone. Integrating with Gemini 3 Pro's reasoning engine, it creates professional infographics, comic strips, and visual resumes instantly. While imperfect,

Happy Thanksgiving! Song: Suno 5 Base images of Jakob Nielsen's tiger mascot celebrating Thanksgiving: Seedream 4 Animation: Seedance Pro 1, Grok Imagine 0.9, Kling 2.5 Turbo, MiniMax Hailou 2.3, Veo 3.1, Midjourney 7 Lyrics: Happy Thanksgiving from the UX Tigers team! We're

The human aging process is hard on the brain, especially on fluid intelligence, which peaks around age 20. Luckily, crystallized intelligence continues to increase, and the combination of the two means that creative knowledge workers are at their best around age 40. Then, it's

What a week! I originally planned to write a short newsletter for today, but last week's many events conspired against this plan, so the newsletter is rather long. I asked Nano Banana Pro to make an infographic summarizing last week. I prompted it to be fair and give equal

AI helps old users stay creative | Microsoft, Google, and our AI Future | Automatically generate on-brand campaigns | AI-created digital storytelling is worth $2 billion | AI music valued even higher than AI slides | Nano Banana Pro causes TPU meltdown Full article 👉

I am very impressed with Suno’s version 5 upgrade that I used for this song, in particular, the way the vocalist sings the words “look like they’re alive” (0:30) versus “just hide it all” (1:05), to represent two of the three design patterns (always showing features, even when

Three design patterns exist for inactive UI commands: showing them as normal commands with an error message if clicked, a visibly disabled state, or completely hiding unavailable options. Best practice is to display disabled features in muted colors, accompanied by explanations

Is your UX job safe? Google’s new Gemini 3 Pro isn’t just another AI model; it’s mainstreaming Generative UI, the technology poised to render traditional web design obsolete. Generative UI creates bespoke interfaces instantly, and Google’s data shows users vastly prefer them: 90%

Google's NotebookLM dropped a feature to specify custom styles for the visuals in its narrated slideshows. Here's what I got from specifying "funny cartoons in color ink wash" and asking it to make a slideshow based on my UX Roundup for today. Read this newsletter: 👉

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 Full article 👉 https://t.co/TNc0HcZfEL #UserExperience

A one-minute interruption will cause a 15-minute productivity loss if it disrupts the user's flow state and makes it necessary to reload all the context into the user's working memory and get back into flow.

The Cognitive Latency Stack: Why Your Users Are Waiting (And What To Do About It) 🧠⏱️ Interaction with systems breaks down into five distinct phases, each demanding different design approaches. With slow-running #AI systems and agents, the longer delays are becoming more