Summary: Books dominated by Old UX instead of new UX | How Adam Smith predicts AI will turn out for the economy | Chinese sci-fi video made with Seedance 2 | The 5 levels of AI agency
UX Roundup for March 16, 2026 (Nano Banana Pro)
Vitaly Friedman published a list of 21 new books about UX (including some online sources). It’s a useful service to list them all in one place, and several of these new books look interesting, judging from the title. (I’m purely going by the book titles in this analysis, as well as what’s communicated by the 9 book covers Friedman published as an illustration for his list.)
What’s sad is that all these new books seem targeted purely at the legacy UX design process and the design of legacy user interfaces from before the AI revolution…