UX Roundup: AI Image Consistency | Speak the User’s Language | Business Use of AI | The Exam Is Not the Education | Caption Contest
Consistency vs. exploration in AI image design | Speak the user’s language | Strong Growth in Business AI Use | The exam is not the education | The funniest cartoon captions by humans and AI
The Usability Scaling Law: Death of User Testing?
Training AI on large volumes of user research data may scale up its ability to predict usability problems and create better designs in the first place. This could change the balance between predictive usability and observational usability.
UX Roundup: Midjourney Usability Atrocity | AI Drives Traffic | Lip Synch Improvements | Progress in AI Music | You ≠ User
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
No More User Interface?
AI products have changed from invisible enhancement of classical user interfaces to soon become the main avenue for users to engage with digital features and content. This may mean the end of UI design in the traditional sense, refocusing designers’ work on orchestrating the experience at a deeper level.
UX Roundup: Developers Outrace UX | AI Traffic Safety | Dovetail Conference | Usability Poster | RIP Prompt Engineering | Comparing 6 Image Models
Developers outracing UX because of AI acceleration | AI is 5x times safer than humans when driving cars | Usability poster | Prompt engineering no longer a viable job
The Answers to 118 UX Quiz Questions
These are the answers to the “Big UX Quiz” that Jakob Nielsen published last week.