Future is Lean, Mean, and Scary for UX Agencies
Increasing in-house UX maturity coupled with AI’s productivity explosion threatens the survival of UX consultancies and design agencies.
UX Roundup: OpenAI Product Roadmap | Parallel and Iterative AI Use | Virtual Boyfriends | Jakob in SF | Dropdown Menus | Early GUI | AI Urgency | Perplexity Deep Research
Parallel and iterative use of AI improves quality outcomes | Dropdowns must die | Early GUI prototypes | UX needs more urgency about AI
AI Hallucinations on the Decline
Early AI proclaimed many falsehoods, but such hallucinations are getting fewer with modern AI products. Larger models hallucinate less.
UX Roundup: Status Updates | AI Tutoring | UX Optimism | Ideogram Text | AI-UX Conference | EU Multilingual LLM
Being asked for a status update is a bad sign | Strong results from AI tutors | UX Optimism | EU multilingual LLM
Deep Research: First Impressions
Summary: OpenAI’s new Deep Research offers rapid data synthesis and a novel approach to user interaction with shared dialogue initiative....
AI Scaling Laws 4 & 5: More Engineers and Designers
The first 3 AI scaling laws say that increasing machine resources boosts intelligence. The next two scaling laws hinge on more humans.