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Fuselab: an AI test won on clicks and lost on task completion

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AI-Generated UI Design: What Practitioners Need to Know
Published
Marc Caposino14 July 2025

Fuselab's case studies make a simple point with unusually specific evidence: AI optimizes exactly the metric you give it, not the outcome you actually want. Their Fiserv example is the clearest, an AI test lifted click-through on a primary action by 22% while task completion dropped 8%, because the winning button placement hid a confirmation step. Elsewhere Fuselab reports a design-system audit shrinking from two days to 20 minutes plus an hour of review. The lesson isn't that AI fails, it's that teams stop specifying what actually matters once a dashboard shows a number improving.

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