THE USABILITY SCALING LAW: DEATH OF USER TESTING?

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

By 2035, AI trained on massive usability data could revolutionize interface design, making predictive usability more effective than traditional user testing for common cases. Today's usability insights are scattered, but if unified and used to train AI, they could scale like other AI systems. Though it may take 100,000 hours of annotated research and cost hundreds of millions, the boost in UX productivity could save billions each year.