UX Roundup: Web Design for AI Agents | AI Assistants Beat Brand Websites | Ship, Learn, Iterate | AI as Business Strategist | AI-Assisted Creativity for Children | Infinite Canvas | Scott McCloud

Agent-ready web design lifts AI task success | Shoppers now pick AI assistants over brand websites, 41% to 38% | Learn from reality: build and iterate | AI getting better at business strategy, but still not good enough to run your company | AI raised the floor but lowered the ceiling in children’s storytelling | Infinite canvas as a UI space for organizing and collaborating on unstructured information | My Hero: Scott McCloud, comic book artist and theorist | AI animates classic paintings to retell Homer | The goal-gradient effect boosts users’ motivation as they near completion of a process | Users spend ever-more money on AI subscriptions | Used right, AI increased learning in Africa UX Roundup for July 31, 2026 (GPT Image 2) Agent-Ready Web Design Lifts AI Task Success from 49% to 89% In a controlled experiment, AI browser agents completed 89% of e-commerce tasks on a website redesigned for machine consumption, compared with 49%... [41381 chars]