Summary: OpenAI’s new Deep Research offers rapid data synthesis and a novel approach to user interaction with shared dialogue initiative....

Tech advances outpace human aging | Specializing in design for a target domain | The best-performing Avatars vary by social-media platform

Closing AI research window | Inflection point for AI skill substitution | UX job growth | AI-UX consulting | Animating cute animals

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

AI Startups Growth | Hiring Staff with AI Skills | Apple Intelligence Useless | Dr. AI | New o3 model

AI-Assisted Video Editing with CapCut | Comparing services for generating AI avatars | The core NotebookLM team leaves Google

Cookie banners waste 575 M hours of European users’ time annually | Jensen Huang on AI infrastructure | AI training clusters keep growing

Directing the AI camera for emotional impact | Web design mistakes the same as ever | UX job openings: equal numbers for senior and junior

OpenAI Canvas  heralds hybrid UI for AI | Evaluating AI video models in pairwise quality comparisons | AI-created podcast | AI translation

Learn user testing through in-person sessions | Dialectic writing with AI | AI taking the lead to guide users

Why UX Tigers has a tiger brand | Major Design conference | Getting AI to provide help about itself | UX degree or keep working?

Lessons from LEGO’s Creative Play Lab | What new products and services can be built with 10x or 10 less investment needed because of AI?

Educational use of AI-generated songs | Weakness of manual UX design | Disappointing AI videos from pro filmmakers

Summary: Visualize the size of objects on ecommerce product pages | Job Openings: UX Research Generative AI @ Microsoft | Midjourney’s...

Richly illustrated historical overview of the transformation of usability labs from dedicated spaces to Zoom calls.