Jakob Nielsen’s top videos from 2024 include both old-school live humans in and AI-generated videos. AI video progressed immensely this year

From AI generation to AI editing | Innovation can be harmful | Is Midjourney getting faster? | AI may make workers feel less time pressure

Removing and adding keywords in image prompting changes the generated images in unpredictable ways. Current prompt adherence is too weak.

UX professionals used 93 different AI tools: 12 UX-specific AI tools were fairly popular. Low overlap in popular AI between UX & the public

How to build a UX portfolio before getting your first UX job | Usability testing with 5 users: the comic strip

Traditional accessibility methods have been tried for 30 years without improving usability for disabled users. Generative UI may be better.

AI won’t replace human creativity, it will amplify it. Forget mass-market entertainment; the true revolution is in hyper-targeted content.

User targeting in UX has progressed through 5 stages : target audience, personas, customization, personalization, AI individualization.

UX animations should emulate the cartoon physics of Bugs Bunny | AI animation overload looms | Most-liked UX postings on LinkedIn

Unlike search, AI synthesizes a single clear answer from all available info, tailored to the user’s specific query and circumstances.

Design firm IDEO cut half of staff since 2020 (most layoffs in 2023) | In analytics, define Overall Evaluation Criterion aligning w business

AI creativity tested by challenging 3 leading generative models to conceptualize “artificial intelligence” without resorting to robots.

Use generative-AI tools to support and enhance your UX skills — not to replace them. Start with small UX tasks, and watch out for bad advice

GenAI Visual Shootout | Incremental Gains | Citation Analysis | A Real Recession

Consultants at a top-3 company had 33% higher productivity and achieved a 40% quality gain when using AI.

It is cheaper to let AI take the initiative in human–AI collaborations where it generates a range of initial ideas for humans to winnow.

UX News Roundup: A collection of recommended links with comments.

12 research studies confirm that AI’s creativity surpasses humans in sheer idea abundance. Yet human-AI co-creation performs even better.

AI needs much faster response time to meet human demands, which remain unaltered from previous UI paradigms.

Torment users with alternating emotions of euphoria and anguish as AI metes out sublime or disastrous pictures with wanton unpredictability.