Highlights reel of my best #AI #music #videos from 2025, presented chronologically from January to December, so that you can easily track the improvements in the various aspects of AI music: 🎵 Songs & music: Modest improvements, since it was already strong by late 2024. Finally

The most interesting news about today's launch of #GPT 5.2 is not that #OpenAI claims that it's better than #Google's #Gemini 3 Pro, because the comparison doesn't seem to have been fair. (To fairly test Gemini 3 Pro, you should enable its "Deep Think" mode.) Much more interesti

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 determine

Creativity with AI goes beyond specifying exactly what you want. Instead, the creator explores the latent space of possible design solutions and uses his or her judgment to navigate in new directions, guided by what they discover. Full details in Jakob Nielsen's article "A New

AI exhibits better empathy than human clinicians | Compute limits should be made transparent in the user experience | User interface modes usually lower usability | Seedream 4.5 image model now with improved text rendering | How feasible is it to build an AI company outside

📱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