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Usability Testing

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Prototyping

AI Prototypes Lost the Signal That Said They Were Disposable

AI prototypes now look shipped, not sketched, which studies from Mozilla and Purdue show gets users to react honestly but stops teams asking for changes.

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Product Design

Synthetic Users Are Too Agreeable for Real UX Testing

PerceptUI and UXBench, two June 2026 papers, disagree on AI synthetic users, but both miss the deeper flaw: a people-pleasing bias that hides exactly when early testing needs pushback.